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Apologetic Points. Next day it was back to Pnompenh for an audience with the Prince's mother, Queen Sisowath Kossomak. It took place in the Royal Throne Room, a fairy-tale chamber of nine-tiered parasols that shield a great gold throne beneath ceilings depicting ancient Asian tales incongruously set against French classical landscapes. After an exchange of gifts, Jackie was escorted outside under a purple parasol to feed the royal elephants, whose grasping trunks she approached gingerly...
...from its peak altitude, its engine again fired, increasing its speed and ensuring that the craft would plunge into the earth's atmosphere at the 25,000-m.p.h. velocity that will be reached by a returning lunar mission. The maneuver was designed to test Apollo's heat shield against temperatures much higher than those encountered by Gemini and Mercury spacecraft, which re-entered the atmosphere from their orbital missions at about 17,000 m.p.h...
...there is also a real possibility of atomic war-directed, most probably, by one small, adventurous state against another of the same kind: "While the balance of terror is a great deterrent to conservative powers, to a reckless power the balance of terror may look like an opportunity or shield behind which it can get away with a good deal." In the event of nuclear war between two major powers-not necessarily involving the U.S. or Russia-the world is likely to survive. And the victor nation may appoint itself the shepherd of international peace...
...which will be paid for all this has not been established. Pollack hinted, however, that it might be somewhere between $300 and $400 per year for a typical family. This would be slightly more than a family pays for the less comprehensive Blue Cross-Blue Shield, but less than a family with Blue Cross-Blue Shield ends up paying for all the services covered by the Harvard plan...
Pollack emphasized that Harvard does not wish to complete with existing insurance companies, but "wishes to do the kind of research and teaching in public health problems" which they have not done. In fact, Pollack said he has asked Blue Cross-Blue Shield to cooperate with Harvard in its research but has not yet received an answer...