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...Virginia, former State Senator Armistead L. Boothe announced his candidacy in the Democratic primary against Senator Harry F. ("Little Harry") Byrd Jr., 51, appointed last fall as interim successor to his aging father. An eloquent Alexandria attorney and former Rhodes Scholar, Boothe, 58, won 45% of the Old Dominion's Democratic primary vote in an unsuccessful 1961 try for the lieutenant-governorship, in 1964 supported Lyndon Johnson, while the Byrds followed a policy of "golden silence." Harry Jr.'s situation is further complicated by the fact that it is a regular election year for Virginia's other...
...says Harvard's Joseph Nye, "a safety net underneath these nations as they play on their tightrope." If ever the U.S. and the Soviet Union get together and agree on spheres of influence, however, the new nations may find themselves with no net to fall into; in the interim, they had better acquire some bounce. The 20th century's other complications do not help either. The non-nations find themselves small and technologically blighted in a world that is fast integrating its trade and increasing its industrial and scientific prowess. Most of them simply cannot...
...have to be placed initially in the hands of a royal Governor and a council of Rhodesian advisors. This centralized rule linked to Britain will be needed to replace rebellious members of the current government, the armed forces and police with men loyal to the Crown. Elections for an interim independent government will be held after the African franchise has been increased. A constitution would be written with provisions to give the Africans a "blocking third" in the legislature and to assure them of increasing participation in the government, leading to majority rule. An international treaty imposing strict sanctions...
...wash. But by bringing out its short-range DC-9 nearly two years ahead of Boeing's competing 737, Douglas last year managed a major comeback. Last month it rolled out an elongated, 200-passenger version of its DC-8 in a bid for the interim market before the C-5A is ready. By winning the $1.5 billion contract last year to build the Air Force's first manned orbiting laboratory, on which it had gambled $60 million of its own, Douglas jumped into a commanding lead in a big new space program...
...Charles River doctrine, in short, appeared to offer a way of reconciling the objective of comprehensive disarmament with the interim requirements of national security. Its evident practicality appealed to Kennedy, and its emergence in 1960 gave him the opportunity for a new start in disarmament policy...