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Last week, in response, Kennedy's open door to the East slammed shut. U.S. offi cials announced that a proposed Tito visit to Washington was postponed indefinitely -as was action on Tito's latest request for more U.S. aid. The Administration also said that Poland's plea for more fiscal credits would be shelved. Then the Senate urged the President to withhold aid from any nation that shows little sympathy for U.S. policies...
...There are three keys in each set, one for each of the three missiles in each squadron. The launching process cannot begin until the R.A.F. officer inserts his key into the slot in the control board marked Launch Sequence (bottom center). The warhead cannot be activated until the U.S. offi cer inserts his key in the War-Peace slot (upper left), thus complying with U.S. law that the U.S. must retain "cus tody" of any atomic warheads supplied to an ally...
...Union Carbide, the nation's second-largest chemical firm (1959 sales: $1.5 billion). He takes over from Howard S. Bunn, 60, who moves into the newly created post of vice chairman and is in line to succeed Morse G. Dial, 64, as board chairman and chief executive offi cer. Cornell-educated ('31) Birny Mason started out in research and production, moved into administration five years...
...missed targets that were there. The best Navy brains were baffled. So an offi cer was dispatched to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on the shoul der of Cape...
...beds. Neate's architect indicated a space for "shrubs." Back to Neate came the plan with a question: What kind of plants did Neate intend planting? Back to the committee went Neate's reply: he was planning to plant Urtica dioica, Calystegia sepium, Rnmex obtusijolius and Taraxacum offi-cinale-but was willing to amend the list in any way the Planning Committee desired. Mollified, the county council stamped his application "approved." Apparently none of the committee bureaucrats realized that what Neate proposed to plant was stinging nettles, bindweed, dock and dandelion...