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...televised speech from the White House, and in a legislative message to Congress next day, the President requested an additional $3,454,600,000 for his defense budget, raising requests for fiscal 1962 to a record $47.5 billion. "We intend," he said, summing up the requests, "to have a wider choice than humiliation or all-out nuclear action...
...breakthrough came in 1959 with the isolation of 6-aminopenicillanic acid, which is the hard core of all penicillin molecules. The new Penbritin is the first modification found to be active against a wider range of bacteria...
...American is now alive who has not come in contact with the products of American Seating Co., the Grand Rapids, Mich., firm that is the largest U.S. manufacturer of seats for schools, churches, theaters, ball parks and buses. And with their ever-larger families and fundaments* requiring more and wider chairs, Americans have turned AmSeCo's business into a hot growth industry...
...convertible models. Both Dodge and Plymouth retain their 1961 engines but will seem a lot livelier because they are 300-400 lbs. lighter. Plymouth's Valiant now becomes Chrysler's Valiant, gets only a few physical changes: an end to the simulated rear spare "donut" wheel, wider bands of chrome and round, flush taillights instead of the canted, protruding ones of 1961. Dodge's Lancer now has a horizontal, convex grille surrounding its dual twin headlights. The big change in the Chryslers and Imperials is loss of the big, sweeping tailfins...
...John XXIII issued his own social encyclical, a message firmly oriented toward the new problems of the mid-20th century. Titled Mater et Magistra (Mother and Teacher) and addressed broadly to "all Christians," it is 25,000 words long-probably the longest encyclical in history-and ranges farther and wider than either of its two predecessors. It is also more polished; John and his advisers have been tinkering with it for many months, and its publication was reportedly delayed several times for last-minute changes...