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...funny thing happened on the way to Halley's comet last week. As an armada of Soviet, Japanese and European space probes hurtled through the cosmos toward their heralded meetings with the fabled comet next March, they were upstaged by a modest and almost archaic Ameri can spacecraft. The International Cometary Explorer whipped through the tail of an obscure apparition called Giacobini-Zinner, thereby becoming the first man-made object to encounter a comet...
...present, Nixon and Brezhnev seemed agreed only to continue disagreeing on the Middle East. On Viet Nam, by do ing nothing to respond to the Ameri can mining of Haiphong and other ports, Moscow had indeed done some thing of major proportions...
...benefits. The A.M.A.'s "Medicredit" plan and a bill sponsored by the health-insurance industry seek to expand insurance protection by allowing tax benefits for premium payments. Senator Jacob Javits' proposal would gradually expand Medicare to cover the entire population. The American Hospital Association's "Ameri-plan," which has not yet been introduced in Congress, aims to create with federal assistance some 400 "healthcare corporations" across the country. Each would be responsible for bringing together the personnel and facilities to meet health needs in its area, providing such services on a prepayment basis to those who could...
About as crazy as the good old days and Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul, and Mary, and Joan Baez "This land is your land, this land is..." the Ameri-can Indian's communal estate. "If I had a hammer, I'd..." get a sickle. "Any day now, any day now, I shall..." explode! And we memorized the words. Ted Mack brought us The New Chad minstrels with the same voice that brought us Geritol. Even the little girl down the street was learning how to play "folk guitar" and guys with guitars on their backs were wanderin' clear 'round the country...
...short, poor white laborers, Mexican-Americans, and blacks were given a sense of possibility about Ameri-politics political bosses heretofore denied them. It remains to be seen whether the dispossessed will form their own local political organizations, but Kennedy has finally given them electoral, and maybe social, hope...