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...measure, King Hussein of Jordan is a moderate Arab monarch: antiCommunist, pro-Western, and opposed to throwing anything more threatening than verbal brickbats at Israel. Jordan has the longest and most vulnerable border with Israel of any of the Arab nations, is the first target of the Israelis' periodic retaliatory raids to Arab terrorist bombings...
...more stretched-out DC-8-61 (251 passenger) liners and six DC-8F freighters, for $220 million. In a bid to capture still more of the swelling market for transports, Douglas last week rolled out the first production model of its DC-8-62, the world's longest-range (5,750 mi.) commercial jet, for flight testing. The company already has orders for 30 of them...
Part Two of Henry IV is the fourth-longest play in the canon. Anthony decided on a running time of two-and-a-half hours, and did a good deal of cutting. A sizeable number of characters have been eliminated entirely. Anthony has cut the epilogue, and altered the ending a bit to leave the banished Falstaff all alone repeating over and over to himself, "I shall be sent for tonight . . . tonight . . . tonight...
...very notion of conscription rubs against the American grain. Yet in 1966 the U.S. has maintained its draft system almost uninterruptedly for a quarter of a century, the longest period of compulsory military service in the nation's history. Last week Lieut. General Lewis Elaine Hershey, 72, who has directed the present selective service since its inception, acknowledged mounting criticism of the draft but maintained that current criteria, and the 4,050 local draft boards that apply them, are the only workable formula for deciding who should go into uniform...
...McNeill's analysis, is made up of "nominal compounds"-words strung together endlessly in what scientists consider a logical order to describe complex devices or systems. Controlling the attitude of a ship by ejecting gas through nozzles, for instance, is called "nozzle gas ejection ship attitude control." The longest nominal compound discovered by McNeill appeared in the Congressional Record, and sounded as if it had been translated literally from the German: "liquid oxygen liquid hydrogen rocket powered single stage to orbit reversible boost system...