Word: virtualization
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Lively Zip Gun. Pole Vaulter Uelses, 24, was a virtual unknown-he had never cleared 15 ft.-when he showed up for last year's big winter meets. This year he is being courted by colleges (he gets out of the Marines next month), pursued by promoters, haunted by autograph hounds. His fan mail"runs to 300 letters a week. When he holds a press conference, his commanding general personally issues the invitations. But Uelses is a controversial champion. "I'm antagonistic as hell,'' snorted ex-Record Holder Bragg last week. "Uelses...
Under Dirkson's leadership, the magazine said, "Republican Senators leave little impact on legislation or the national course and purpose." A key element in this failure, according to Advance, is the virtual non-existence of professional research and planning personnel to develop Republican alternatives to Democratic legislation rather than simply opposing...
...week's end, President Balaguer, after a palace conference with Armed Forces Secretary Rodriguez Echaverria, announced his own "conciliation" plan-which sounded more like an ultimatum: Balaguer would head up a seven-member junta that would include Rodriguez Echaverria and grant a virtual autonomy to the military, e.g., no military man would be punished for actions committed under Trujillo. Presumably this was his asking price. The opposition U.C.N. could only resume its strike in the streets, hopeful that the rioting would not get out of hand. Looking on, the U.S. was concerned that too sudden an overturn of armed...
...will it? American internationalists are seeking to lay the ground for an alliance built on a sense of economic community rather than political fear: The first undertaking is to get the United States to link itself to the Common Market by making the entire trans-Atlantic Alliance a virtual free trade area. At present, Washington is buzzing with debate over what has been called "a minimum step in that direction"--the passage of a new Trade Agreements Act (the present one expires in June) which would empower the President to make across-the-board tariff reductions in negotiations with...
...compromised with the U.S. on the number and authority of assistant secretaries. The U S wanted five, one each from the U.S., Russia, Latin America, Africa and Western Europe; Russia demanded that either satellite Eastern Europe be included or Western Europe scratched, contended that each should be given virtual veto power. U Thant finally won the right to pick as many assistants as he saw fit, agreed to consult with them over policy, but would not be bound by the advice they gave...