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...carpet at Logan, no official welcoming committee, no exploding flash-bulbs greeted a thin 31-year-old Scotsman named Hugh Hunter when he came to Harvard from Cambridge University ten days ago as the first recipient of the John F. Kennedy Fellowship...
...accused him of knuckling under to the leftists within his loosely knit party. The Haya-Odría bloc then demanded that the government join in outlining a fullscale, bipartisan program to eliminate the Communists. When Belaúnde balked, the opposition decided to call the Cabinet on the carpet. Belaúnde fired the Cabinet instead...
...amphibious craft can cozy right up to an airplane, load up and transport its 15 passengers to a terminal on the other side of the bay so smoothly that they will not know when they are riding over cement or sea. Not that the ship is a veritable magic carpet. The engine makes so much noise that passengers have difficulty carrying on a conversation, and the forced air kicks up so much dust and spray that the visibility through the windows is almost zero. But the engineers are learning fast. Early in the spring, a test Hovercraft capsized while making...
...between veteran crooks and first offenders. "If a quick check shows you have no record," says Gallati, "the desk sergeant will simply give you a summons to appear in ten days." For suspects with criminal records, on the other hand, the system will work like a one-way magic carpet-to the clink...
...Carpet. For Myer Schine, who is so secretive that he does not even disclose his age (73), the sale topped an acquisitive career that began when he was 26. With savings from jobs as candy butcher and dress salesman, he bought a roller rink in Gloversville, N.Y., parlayed the profits into a chain of properties. Many real estate insiders speculated last week that the aging Schine sold out because he was hard-pressed to find successors as sharp as himself within his immediate family...