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...girl (Tippi Hedren), a lovelorn schoolmarm (Suzanne Pleshette), an Oedipus wreck (Rod Taylor) and a pair of lovebirds. Hitchcock addicts will just be getting jittery for their first fix of gore when it suddenly becomes clear that the birds is coming: man's feathered friends set themselves to wipe out an entire village on the California coast...
...services the state-controlled organization could not match. But a year or so ago, the profits of the barbers, blacksmiths, pastrymakers, cobblers and tailors began to get out of hand; they bought cars and rented summer homes on fashionable lakesides. Last May Tito's regime decided to wipe them out. Taxes on private business were raised sevenfold. A private tailor with one helper paid the same amount of tax as a Belgrade tailors' Communist cooperative with seven employees. It was too much for any artisan. By the end of 1962, nearly 10,000 private craftsmen closed up shop...
...could be anything sinister about an acorn and a cup of tea? It certainly surprised me when I discovered that an unexpected combination of the two was causing all the trouble in the Harvard Yard. Last fall, you may remember, Buildings and Grounds began its well-publicized campaign to wipe out the rabid squirrels by scattering poisoned acorns around the elm trees. The deranged squirrels, they reasoned, would overlook the incongruity and bury the nuts for future use. Then, when the Spring thaws came, the animals would dig the acorns, eat them, and expire...
...submarines, each carrying 16 missiles that can be fired from beneath the sea and reach the Soviet heartland, now patrol the North Atlantic. By 1966 there will be at least 30 Polaris subs. The U.S., with an estimated 50,000 nuclear warheads and bombs, has enough nuclear material to wipe out the Soviet Union several times over...
...Cuba to argue that the Trade Expansion Act-so widely hailed by business-was still a promising gate to open the Common Market's new tariff walls. The trade act presumed Britain's entry into the European Economic Community when it gave the President the power to wipe out tariffs on items in which the EEC and the U.S. control 80% of world trade. Without adding in Britain, few items come under the 80% rule. The President reassured businessmen that his remaining power to reduce tariffs 50% is enough to work with. Yet neither the President nor businessmen...