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Safe & Comfortable. After his usual two-day sojourn at the Ambassador last week, Ramfis climbed into a dark green Cadillac and rolled northwest along State Highway 45 to Fort Leavenworth, Kans. His driver stuck to a prescribed route, minding strict instructions to "watch the high bluffs [where a sniper might lurk] and proceed swiftly." Through the day Ramfis sat attentively with his 620 classmates at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College...
When Belgian Instrument Maker Adolphe Sax stuck a reed into a conical brass tube and patented the hybrid in 1846, he contributed a new instrument to the military band. In time his saxophone traveled across the Atlantic, became a mainstay of jazz. But the saxophone has always had its strict classical disciples. Last week one of the best and most influential of them, France's Marcel Mule, made his U.S. debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and convincingly demonstrated just how good the serious alto sax can sound...
...research and development, development of antisubmarine warfare programs, steps toward dispersal of the Strategic Air Command) have already taken hold, Johnson wrote-not without an oblique reference to the fact that much of this action began only after the committee's inquiry started. But overall, the committee urged strict attention to the kind of progress that would put the U.S. once more into high gear. Among the proposals: stronger advances in modernizing and developing the conventional Army and Navy forces, reorganization of the Defense Department, greater efforts in anti-missile missiles, and more imaginative technological achievements (such as manned...
...many of the teachers, the course is anything but a snap. While the pupils grasp the latest teaching with ease, the teachers must first discard much of what they were taught, master such new (to them) terms as Cartesian products, null sets and strict inequalities. "In trigonometry, for instance," says Supervisor Hoel, "the emphasis used to be on surveying and navigation. Now the emphasis is on vectors, the theory of sets, probability, statistics and symbolic logic...
...decided, even before construction started, not to take space in Canada House. Lawson could not say-but he did know that the former Liberal government was "very glad" to hear of the club's decision. He added: "I can understand the reasons. The Canadian Club has some very strict racial rules...