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Just nine months after the 14-nation Geneva Conference guaranteed Laotian neutrality, Laos last week tottered on the brink of civil war and once again threatened to drag the major powers into a bitter struggle...
...been tested successfully in both fresh and salt water since 1960. About 70? buys 12 to 16 pieces of dry bait-sized shrimp, which needs only water to make it tasty again. > For scuba-ho underwater photographers: a new all-weather camera, Nikon's Nikonos. Drop it overboard, drag it through sand and mud, leave it out in rain and spray, or shoot the wonders of the deep as far as 164 ft. down without an extra housing. Taking 35-mm. film and with an /2.5 Nikkor lens, the Nikonos will sell for approximately...
...Mateos adroitly balanced cordial visits to Yugoslavia and Poland with an abrazo for De Gaulle and a nice chat with old friends Prince Bernhard and Princess Irene of The Netherlands. West Berlin was on the agenda too, and there Mexico's "independent" foreign policy made sightseeing a drag. López Mateos had no time for Checkpoint Charlie, the Wall, or the memorial to 18-year-old Peter Fechter, killed last year by Red Grepos. Instead, Mexico's leader zoomed off to lay a wreath on the statue of the German naturalist Baron Alexander von Humboldt-onetime resident...
...objective during his first months in office has been to persuade the citizens of Michigan to adopt a new state constitution. The old one, written in 1908, has been amended 67 times, runs nearly three times as long as the federal Constitution and, Romney argues, acts as a drag on Michigan's progress. It was the fight for a new constitution that brought Romney from automaking to politics. Having started the compact-car revolution with the Rambler, Romney in 1959 sparked Michigan's constitutional convention (called Con-Con for short). In the midst of the Con-Con struggle...
...there an embracing civil rights movement that can pursue its objectives irrespective of Negro class structure. Hunter Street, the main drag in black Atlanta, separates a stately complex of Negro colleges from the hectic offices of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The proximity is misleading: Morehouse and the other schools in the Atlanta University system are training Negroes to meet the standards of middle-class participation in American society, while SNCC's field workers are out to change the political and ethical bases of that society...