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...Inch. At week's end, however, Jordan was still intact, and it was the Arab unity movement that was reeling. It had to do with a Cabinet crisis in Syria between the majority belonging to the Baath Socialist Party and the minority of strongly Nasserite ministers. The struggle had been brewing for two months, and pro-Nasser ministers frankly told newsmen that they intended to overthrow the Baathists. The Baath counterstrategy, as enunciated by its founder, Michel Aflak, was: "Do everything to preserve unity, but don't give an inch, and don't surrender any power...
...member of the gallery staff announced that she had successfully achieved blue ice cream. She had mixed blue dye and vanilla ice cream with a monkey wrench. The New Frontier moved an inch forward on its stools...
...pyrometer, which has already performed well on the 61-inch reflector telescope at Harvard's Agassiz Station, measures the temperature of a small area of the moon's surface at a time. On a map of the moon some five feet in diameter, this area is about the size of a postage stamp. As the pyrometer scans the moon from side to side and from top to bottom, the record of intensity maps the distribution of temperature over the whole disc of the moon...
...open three more this year. By shrewd purchasing and low-cost production, Quelle keeps the prices of most of its 22,000 items 15% to 20% below those of other retailers. It introduced the first inexpensive fully automatic washing machine on the German market, Germany's first 23-inch TV set, and a simple $59 sewing machine that has become one of its best sellers. It also sells prefabricated houses that it will build within eight weeks, last year introduced a mail-order travel service that sells some tours at 40% below usual cost...
...Everything at Petunya's place was geared to market needs. Instead of a small onion bed he had a real onion plantation, much better than the ones on the kolkhoz. Then there were cucumbers, potatoes . . . every inch was used." Naturally Petunya refuses to help bring in the harvest. " 'If I had a cow I might, but otherwise, why bother?' The chairman understands . . . Every year thousands of acres of hay are lost because kolkhozniki get only 10% of the hay they harvest. In order to feed his own cow he would have to harvest enough for eight...