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...budget is not exactly a bestseller; the Government disposes of only about 3,300 copies, at $1.50 each. The 1967 budget's 449-page bulk, backed up by an imposing appendix of 1,308 pages, is a thick forest of charts, tables and almost totally unrelieved print. Few Americans bother to penetrate this forest-and that is something of a shame. For those who do venture into it, the budget is rich in impressive landmarks, bizarre growths, hidden surprises, hints of the future and enough tantalizing trivia to dine out on for a year. "Budgets," says George Mahon, chairman...
...students seem to be losing their enthusiasm for the amorphous affairs; but, more important, the Berkeley police are not losing theirs. They were on hand once more last week, as they have been since the first volatile protests started. Helmetless in the thick of a riot, cool in the midst of frenzy, the department's skillful crowd-control experts were quick to head off trouble before it started. Time and again the Berkeley cops have been called the most enlightened police force in the nation. Says no less a home-town citizen than California Supreme Court Chief Justice Rodger...
Though Luna 9 successfully disposed of the hypothetical thick layers of lunar dust, said University of Arizona Astronomer Gerard Kuiper, some parts of the moon could still present a hazard to landing spacecraft. Photographs from the U.S. Ranger 9 moon probe show that between 5% and 10% of the lunar surface is covered by depressions, apparently areas of thin crust that have sagged into caves or voids under the surface. Should a spacecraft land on such a crust, he believes, it might crash through into the cave below...
...Negroes," says the Ford Foundation's Edward Meade, "speak with such a thick dialect that they cannot be understood by other Americans." In the simple interests of comprehensibility, Ford and others in the past three years have undertaken, Professor Higgins style, to add pure Huntley-Brinkley speech to thousands of Negroes brought up on Amos 'n' Andy accents...
Furthermore, Cornell is in the thick of a torrid Ivy League race, and simply can't afford to suffer a letdown against a second-division team. The Big Red has a 5-2 mark in league play; Penn. Princeton, and Cornell are all tied for first with 6-1 marks...