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Last night the A.P. reported a Defense Department spokesman announcing "the United States is ready to sink every Communist bloc ship headed for Cuba which refused to stop and be searched." Under these circumstances it is too late to start unravelling the complex pattern of blame and hostility that the United States and Cuban governments helped each other weave...
...publisher of Scientific American charged that one-quarter of our industrial output is dumped into "the sink of armament," not because of true military but because it serves the same economic function of pump-priming as does government investment--"to certify additional workers with paychecks" to consume surplus production, without itself adding to the over-abundance of goods...
...Prime Minister, Francisco Brochado da Rocha, finally managed to achieve a kind of truce. In the Brasilia capital, Brochado da Rocha bluntly told Congress: "We are living at the door of a revolution. This government lacks the power to govern." That, plus his threat to resign, seemed to sink in. Legislators granted the government a package of emergency powers to keep the country together until next October's congressional elections, plus a promise to vote on returning Brazil from its unworkable parliamentary system to a strong presidency. "No more problems in Brasilia," crowed Goulart. There were plenty elsewhere. Food...
...will still have a chance to rejoin the mother ship and return to earth without landing. But if all is well, they will make their landing attempt on their next close approach to the moon. By burning sufficient fuel, they will check the motion of their bug, making it sink slowly toward the surface. They will be able to hover for about one minute and move sideways 1,000 ft. in search of a good landing place. Finally the bug will settle down, steadying itself on four spidery legs...
Inevitable Change. In Morganton, the legal Mrs. Cobb, who had known nothing about the other woman, sent out the conventional message that she planned to "stand by" her husband. In Roanoke, Linda Renfrew, 34, said that she meant to keep her children, "sink or swim." She had known all along about Cobb's wife, but added that life in Roanoke had been "quiet and normal, while feeding the babies." But, of course, "it is inevitable that there will be a change." As for William E. (or W. Edward) Cobb, he had a hard choice to make-and he made...