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...chooses, the President will soon be able to add another monetary liberal to the Fed's changing lineup. Under an obscure civil service rule unearthed recently, Charles N. Shepardson, 71, the board's sturdiest conservative, must retire by May 1 unless Johnson overrides the regulation. With or without Chairman Martin, it would seem, the once staid Fed has become a temple of iconoclasts...
...into service back in 1958, and some of the earliest have since logged more than 250,000 flight hours. The hairline cracks are caused by metal fatigue that commonly develops in high-time aircraft at points where flex and strain occur; even in the DC-6, one of the sturdiest planes ever built, fissures were discovered in a number of wing spars in 1960. To date, said the FAA, no aviation accident of any kind has been attributed to such defects...
...After using machine guns to quell a rebellion by U.S. survivors who get it into their heads to elect a civilian government, he sets himself up as World Leader, or Commander-1. In his brave new science-fiction world, the males are all drugged into brainless docility, while the sturdiest and, presumably, best-looking women are kept around as Selected Future Leader Breeders. Geraghty's ultimate goal: to rebuild the U.S. population, then track down and kill all non-Caucasian survivors elsewhere. "We've had this racial problem once before in the world," says Geraghty, "but this time...
Rising Chorus. The strength of Phyllis McGinley's appeal can best be measured by the fact that today, almost by inadvertence, she finds herself the sturdiest exponent of the glory of housewifery, standing almost alone against a rising chorus of voices summoning women away from the hearth. The loudest of the new emancipators is Betty Friedan, another suburban housewife and mother. Mrs. Friedan maintains in her bestselling broadside, The Feminine Mystique, that the college-educated woman who seeks fulfillment in domesticity will never find it, that the clever girl will either go mad in the kitchen or go forth...
...fight on in the thickets. Worse, the rebels' action has encouraged the scattered anti-federation forces in many parts of the area that is to be Malaysia. In Singapore, trouble is expected from pro-Communist Chinese elements who are opposed to alignment with Malaya, Southeast Asia's sturdiest anti-Communist state, and keystone of the Malaysia scheme. In any case, the fighting could break out again at any time. As one rebel ominously put it: "We were beaten this time. Next time we will get more arms and maybe we won't be beaten...