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Rare is the man who has gone home from a Chicago convention without some choice memento locked in his suitcase of memories. For one middle-aged Texas oilman recently, it was the long, goose-pimpled wait for a rendezvous with a $50 floozy in a plum-colored parlor; for a life-insurance salesman from New Jersey, it was a harmless evening in an elegant and naughty North-Side Key Club; for a mackinawed Dakota farmer back in 1906, it was a dinner at the old Saratoga Hotel, where after ordering a fancy city dish called oysters on the half shell...
Despite the unending technical and mechanical complications, Polaris subs are built to stay at sea up to three years. They are untethered by the standard submarine's fuel and oxygen limitations. They can manufacture their own atmosphere without surfacing. Only the limitations of human endurance will require that they make port every two months. In home port for Washington and Henry will be the Polaris sub tender Proteus, stationed at Holy Loch, an anchorage in Scotland's River Clyde. Each ship will have a second, fully trained crew waiting to take her back to sea. With fresh "Blue...
...ships are on their own, the Navy has an elaborate, secret "Fail-Safe'' countdown system that would prevent any captain, or any other officer who has cracked under the tension of his job, from declaring war on his own. One key provision: no missile can be fired without the joint order of the skipper and his executive officer...
...school holiday. In defiance of Judge Wright's restraining orders, the legislature has issued written demands to the school principals not to integrate and had voted to remove those members of the school board who had moved to obey the federal action. Another resolution prohibited inter-school transfers without legislative consent. In an appeal to the public, the House urged white parents to boycott the two integrated schools. At present, with these and other measures rescinded by Judge Wright, Governor Davis is under injunction forbidding any further legislation designed to impede desegregation...
However, Bundy stated that, although any source of university income is potentially a source of control, Harvard need only accept--in all areas of science--the federal aid that it wants--without endangering its policies...