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Presidential Candidate Stuart Symington, like Presidential Candidate Lyndon Johnson, has a problem of labels. Last week Symington took to the road to explain that he is concerned with more than the problem of U.S. military weaknesses, for years his specialty. At a Des Moines press conference, he said that he did not appreciate being called a "one-track-mind" candidate, protested: "I am equally concerned with economic, social, moral and spiritual might." During the past year, Symington said, he had made more speeches about agriculture and economics than about defense...
...days, when Africans rarely married outside their tribal groups, these contradictory customs affected few. But as the number of city-bred Africans grows, the problem has become Africa-wide. Today many families are neither completely tribal nor wholly Europeanized, but something in between, with all the tensions and disputes caused by the conflict of a traditional and an emerging culture. To keep their personal freedom and the control of their own earnings, many African girls are refusing to marry the men they live with. An estimated half of the couples living together in Uganda have had neither Christian, civil...
...hours after the coup ended. One trade-union chief threatened future military Putschists with civil war, and read a cable from Cuba's government offering 1,000 armed men. Betancourt showed less vulnerability to military coups than might have been foreseen, but he still has the problem of fending off the bear hug from the extreme left...
...second baseman at Stanford in his college days, nonetheless has power off the tee and a pool shark's touch on the green. Last year he won the P.G.A., finished a stroke behind Winner Casper in the Open. Rosburg is now grimly trying to conquer a problem even more serious than his physical ailments: an explosive temper that usually drives him into one miserable round per tournament...
What no one mentioned was that Capital itself had fought its way into every city on its route-and therein lies the airline's major problem: its own management. By buying the wrong equipment, pushing its debt too high, expanding without careful study, Capital has been in competitive trouble for years and usually looked to CAB for help. The last time was in 1958, when CAB bailed out Capital by giving the line access to the lucrative Florida market, with a run from Buffalo. Cleveland, Pittsburgh, to Jacksonville and beyond. Object of the move: to keep Capital off subsidy...