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...retiring Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson, and that 2) new Defense Secretary Neil McElroy would henceforth require weekly missile reports from his service chiefs. The importance even of the reports was open to question in view of the fact that Wilson had been getting much the same sort of carbon copies for more than 18 months. Moreover, in direct antithesis to Nixon and Dulles came other Administration remarks; e.g., White House Staff Chief Sherman Adams, in a thoroughly political speech seeking G.O.P. credit for decisive action at Little Rock, scoffed at an international satellite race as "an outer-space basketball game...
...Pretty, smartly gowned Mrs. Robert North, 37, now secretary of the American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand, who went there as the wife of a Hollywood screen writer in 1950. She stayed on after his death to run her own bottling and solid carbon dioxide works by putting up $10,000 herself, raising the other $150,000 in local funds. Worth of her business today:$350,000. Yearly profit: upwards...
...companies are systematically trying to loosen their U.S. corporate ties and to "Canadianize" their management. One conspicuous example is U.S.-owned Union Carbide Canada Ltd., Canada's second biggest chemical manufacturer. Ever since it was formed four years ago from five loosely knit subsidiaries of Union Carbide and Carbon Corp., the Toronto company has sought earnestly to assume a Canadian coloration. It took on a Canadian president and board chairman, gave Canadians four out of seven seats on the board of directors, put Canadians in 95% of its key jobs...
...Down with Simons." As Simons finally started to descend. Stapp detected a slur in his voice. "What is your respiration, Dave?" Stapp asked. Simons' count: a fast 44 breaths a minute. "Check your carbon dioxide," radioed Stapp. Simons' reading: the carbon dioxide in the capsule's air was an alarming 4% (3% is dangerous...
...time when contemporary American drama consists largely of stillborn carbon copies of Ibsen, Shaw and Chek- hov, Kerr departs from realism, naturalism and contemporary social problems. Turning to Aristophanic comedy and American history, he weaves a very refreshing and unusual play that injects new life and variety into the Iceberg American theatre, and which, baring the bedrock of American ideals and tradition, reveals the strains of a nation's soul through song, fables and poesy, and so utterly avoids didactic realism...