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...much to vote for him as to register a protest against Carter's leadership. That strategy could enable him to force some of his liberal ideas into the platform and thus claim that his long campaign had accomplished something. Acknowledging that Kennedy has "one of the highest percentages of support for my programs of anyone who serves in the Senate," Carter said he expected to work harmoniously with his rival in preparing a party platform. The Senator could also be thinking of another run in 1984; aides who once said that he had to make it this year...
...share of servicemen with some college experience who have enlisted in the Army has taken a shocking drop: from 13.9% in 1964 to 3.2% last year. There is also a drastic decrease in what are called category I recruits, those scoring highest on aptitude tests given to enlistees. Meanwhile, relatively large numbers of category IVs, the lowest level the military will accept, appear to be signing up. Fully 34% of the Army's enlistees leave before their first three-year term is up; the Army shucks off those who seem totally unsuitable...
Laird: The major manpower problem that we face is that those with the highest aptitude who are in their second, third and fourth terms of service are not staying in the military. And some of the poor performers are staying...
...dancing satyr. Brother Lamar Hunt pledged money due him from his holdings in the Dallas Tornado soccer team and the Chicago Bulls basketball team. Lamar also added his art collection. A prized possession: Frederic Edwin Church's The Icebergs, which he bought last October for $2.5 million, the highest price ever paid at auction for an American painting...
...scanning and rescanning its surface with radar. Last week NASA released the first renderings of these extraterrestial data, revealing a dramatic and awesome landscape still in the process of formation. Though 60% of the Venusian topography consists of flat rolling plains, it also includes four major highland regions, the highest being Ishtar Terra (named after the Assyrian goddess of love and war), which is dominated by a 11,800-meter (38,700 ft.) massif, probably volcanic, that eclipses Everest...