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...COMMAND. Hanoi's command and control apparatus-the elaborate array of political, military and espionage hookups by which it manipulates the Viet Cong effort-is carefully described in the report. The political chain-of-command starts with the "Reunification Department" of the Lao Dong Party's Central Committee in Hanoi. Its directives are transmitted to the "Central Office for South Viet Nam," a roving command last believed to be located in Tayninh province near Saigon. The Central Office controls six regional units plus a special "death squad" in the Saigon-Cholon-Giadinh area...
...free world alliance, the United States was the leading member because of the predominance of its economic and military power. In the Communist camp, the Soviet Union was the undisputed ruler not only because of its predominant economic and military power but also because it controlled the international Communist apparatus and was willing to back it up with military force when necessary...
...booster still the most powerful the U.S. has ever aimed at space. With deceptive ease it ignited, accelerated and climbed out of sight. A few minutes later, the second stage blasted into orbit. Sizable pieces, which are dummy Apollo parts, detached themselves and moved away, leaving a curious folded apparatus exposed to space. Slowly that great gadget expanded its accordion pleats and flattened into a shiny aluminum wing for the Pegasus of the 20th century...
Harvard's successful fund-raising apparatus is presided over by James R. Reynolds '23, assistant to the president for development. Almost all of the graduate schools carry on their own financial campaigns under his general direction...
Practical Chore. The chemists used every kind of modern apparatus as soon as it became available, but progress was slow. Then some of them turned to X-ray diffractions and called on an IBM 7090 computer to interpret their results. Finally, they found the long-sought formula which is unlike that of any other known poison. Then a group of chemists at Stanford University led by Professor Harry S. Mosher found the same poison in egg clusters of California newts. Both U.S. and Japanese chemists are now trying to figure out why such distantly related animals as fish and newts...