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Healer. As she fights for a place in the old order, Westwood will have some imitators among McGovernites on the local and state levels. As separate entities, McGovern organizations largely self-destructed this week. But many local workers will stay on to fight another day-within the established party apparatus. Time and again, party regulars who could not take McGovern have warmed up to some of his youthful supporters. If there was ever a chance for a collision, it was in Chicago when the McGovernites arrived. The Daley regulars had braced for the worst, only to be pleasantly shocked when...
...meantime, each agency seems determined to establish its own independence not only from every other agency but from the working apparatus of the U.N. as well. They have managed to free themselves from the Secretariat by making their annual budget and program reports accountable only to the General Assembly, which is not equipped to be an administrative body. They have built pint-sized superstructures, asserting reasonably enough that it is better to be the director-general of a small fiefdom than a third assistant deputy in a larger one. Almost every agency, without any central coordination, has also begun...
...administrator, "one following the new ways and the other continuing to do what it had always done. It also left us feeling that we aren't a family business any longer. They asked us questions about what we thought our purpose was, what we thought our apparatus was supposed to accomplish and what we thought of our results. You don't ask those kinds of questions in a family business...
Perhaps the most intriguing experiment was that of Harvard's Dr. James Baker, designer of optical systems. He had constructed a special camera and lens apparatus to black out the corona and search through the resulting darkness for objects within the orbit of Mercury. Astronomers have long talked about a hidden planet near the sun, tentatively named Vulcan, and Baker hoped to find this, or hitherto unseen comets. Only weeks of analysis will show whether he succeeded...
When the young Chinese woman heard a mysterious voice asking, "What's under your pillow?" she felt sure that the answer was a "biological radio apparatus" put there by a special agent who suspected her of crimes against the state. She grew agitated, her head ached, and she began to hear loud speeches emanating from an unseen source. Then she became a patient in the psychiatric section of the Third Teaching Hospital in Peking. Before long her headaches disappeared. She recognized that her idea of being spied upon was "ridiculous," realized that she had been hallucinating, and expressed confidence...