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...This was a good system in horse-and-buggy days," said Democratic Senate Whip Mike Mansfield last week, "but we ought to bring it up to date." Promptly the Wall Street Journal disputed him: "This system works remarkably well . . . Abolishing it would be one more blow at the federal structure, one more step toward centralization of power in the National Government." In the wake of the 20th century's closest election, politicos and pundits locked anew in an old debate: Should the electoral college be abolished, or reformed to enhance the power of the popular vote...
...from the wing of a high-flying B-52, gunned to 80,000 ft. at speeds nearing 2,000 m.p.h. It was the first test of the X-15's new 57,000-lb.-thrust engine, the most powerful airplane rocket engine that the U.S. has built to date (earlier X-15 engines developed 16,000 Ibs. thrust). Said Crossfield, who flew only at half throttle: Acceleration with the new engine was so abrupt that it was "almost like an explosion...
According to the historians of antiquity, Rome was founded by the brothers Romulus and Remus as a hangout for the delinquent youth of early Iron Age Latium, and was given permanence by the rape of 527 Sabine women. The traditional founding date is April 21, 753 B.C.-but the historians have long been fidgety about the exactness of that anniversary. Last week modern Rome's Department of Antiquities and Fine Arts showed proof that Rome had inhabitants several hundred years before the Romulus mob ever touched a Sabine woman...
...Italian Peninsula long before the beginning of eyen mythical history. They were not found where the original pots were used or broken, but must have come from some nearby place. The Romans had no reason to carry earth long distances. Professor Colini believes that Apenninic Rome may date back as far as 1400 B.C. Says Professor Gjerstad: "These are the oldest relics of civilization yet found in Rome. They pull back the history of Rome by about 700 years...
Father's Friend. Based on Kennedy's pronouncements, the sort of men he has so far gathered around him and his economic moves to date, what are some of the business changes-and bows to the status quo-that will take place under a Kennedy Administration...