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...load that Trottenberg must carry, as both an assistant dean of Harvard and administrative vice-president of Radcliffe is quite heavy, she pointed out, and possibly no member of the Harvard administration would have the time to handle both jobs...
...nearly 190 million; our gross national product from $218 billion to $623 billion; space and atomic-energy issues have now overshadowed the issues such as which towns get new post offices, and world trade and world credit have replaced the old RFC problems. Our machinery to carry the mammoth load of old and new items needs updating, overhauling, modernizing and revising." And last week, Monroney and Indiana's Democratic Representative Ray J. Madden, as co-chairmen of a twelve-man Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress, began hearings to try to do just that. They found no lack...
...score any spectacular triumph, but no competent space engineer would blame them for failing on the first try. The U.S. Surveyor program, which is working toward the same soft-landing goal, will fire at least four test shots starting next fall, before even trying to land a scientific pay load equipped to radio information from the lunar surface. It is likely that the Russians are making the same gradual approach...
...Those brats just seemed to delight in terrorizing us," said one U.S. housewife. Only the arrival of a rebel army colonel stopped the gunplay and permitted the removal of the refugees to the port of Haina, twelve miles away. There the U.S. Navy was already waiting to load 1,172 of them aboard transports. Some 1,000 other Americans elected to stay behind, hoping the disorder would soon be ended...
...seems perpetually bent out of shape. Teachers, civil servants and even the 30,000-man army frequently go without pay. Air conditioners in most of the capital's sticky offices are turned on only when important visitors arrive. Roadways are falling apart, but when Sihanouk recently ordered a load limit of eight tons on the vital Pnompenh-Battambang Highway, he had to rescind the decree. Shell Oil, which supplies Battambang with all its oil and gasoline, pointed out that its tank trucks weigh six tons empty, and without them the town would soon be unable to operate its electric...