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More Help than Hurt. Politically, Dirksen's distaste for the reapportionment ruling is puzzling, since it has helped Republicans more than it has hurt them. Initially, political scientists thought that the state legislatures would see a swift, drastic transfer of power from rural areas to the predominantly Democratic inner cities. Power has in deed flowed away from rural representatives-but to suburbia, where political loyalties are still in flux and Republicans are more often elected than Democrats...
...infiltrate to report on trail traffic. From South Viet Nam come reconnaissance patrols of Vietnamese, Montagnard and Nung tribesmen, or of U.S. Special Forces led by local guides. Occasionally, when a Communist troop concentration is firmly fixed, South Vietnamese units as large as a company slip across for a swift, unpublicized strike. But the main job of harassment is carried out by the Royal Laotian Air Force's 25-odd prop-driven T-28 fighter-bombers and U.S. jets out of Thailand, which bomb the heavy traffic on the trail around the clock under the euphemism of "armed reconnaissance...
Britain wanted, he said, swift negotiations relating only to "the small number of really important issues," such as the special problems of New Zealand trade, Commonwealth sugar and British capital movements. Of the Common Market's common agricultural policy, which, if applied in Britain, could raise food prices as much as 10%, Wilson quietly acknowledged: "We must come to terms with it." Above all, Wilson showed a determination that reflected support from both parties, from British business and from most of the country* - the kind of national approval that was lacking four years ago, in large part because...
...that, under threat of punishment, Greek youngsters must henceforth give up their seats on buses to clergymen, pregnant women and invalids. Of such stuff, apparently, is the new Greece to be built. Ruling by dictatorial decree, the junta of army officers, who three weeks ago seized control in a swift coup, pressed ahead with their plan to reshape and purify Greek life and politics...
...several areas around the world, were formed when meteorites or comets collided with the earth. The en- counters were so catastrophic that bits of the earth, as well as chunks of the intruder, were hurled into space and then fell back. Heated both by the impact and their swift passage through the atmosphere, they were fused into glassy globules...