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...July 5 a new international emergency crupts as the Russian diplomatic corps in the Gambezi Republic stages a coup d'etat. Television cameras are moved into the Kennedy bedroom to record every stage of Jackie's illness. Meanwhile, the Gambezi U.N. delegation is flown home in U.S. transport planes to help unseat the Russians...
...Call, One Million. To transport the goods from manufacturers to Cuba, ten airlines, ten railroads, one shipping firm and a group of truckers chipped in with equipment and manpower-tax deductible at out-of-pocket cost. Even then, with the full ransom in hand or pledged, and with fast transportation assured, the whole effort almost fell apart. For Castro insisted on ironclad guarantees that he could collect cash for any goods not delivered, once the prisoners were set free. This meant a $53 million performance bond. Katzenbach flew to Montreal to seek such a bond from the Royal Bank...
...Government was playing no official part in arranging for the ransom to Castro. "This," he said, "is being done by a private committee." What really happened was that representatives of the Justice Department all but ordered drug and chemical companies to kick in with "donations" of their products. Transport companies-railroads, truckers, airlines and shipping firms-were similarly told to "donate" their services. Naturally enough...
...Doldrums. Buchan began writing in 1895 and produced scholarly biographies of Scott and Oliver Cromwell, as well as a 1,500,000-word account of World War I. But his apparently secure niche in literary history depends on the oldest storytelling skill in the world: the ability to transport recognizable people to exotic places, place them in jeopardy, and bring them back alive...
...shown that the unit responsible for the transport of citric acid--essential for the combustion of fuels in all cells--across a cell membrane, can be altered by repression as well as by mutation. This discovery offers a powerful tool for approaching one of the least-understood aspects of cellular physiology--the remarkable capacity of cell membranes to select only certain substances for passage in and out of the cell...