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...sales increase from April through September 1960. Business in the second half of his fiscal year looks even better. Some 8,000 jobs out of 28,000 have been eliminated, but no one was fired, because Sir Simon promised when he began his Marksian revolution that he would absorb everyone either through expansion or simply not refilling a job when someone left...
...Peace Corps" will be directed by a new Government board designed to supervise--though not to absorb--the activities of private organizations, if the Kennedy Administration adopts a set of proposals by Dr. Max Millikan, Director of International Affairs at MIT. The board would probably include members of the International Cooperation Administration, the United States Information Agency, the State Department, and private foundations and professional groups...
...team of scientists operating on San Salvador Island in the Caribbean sent coded pulses to the rocket during flight in an effort to study the ionosphere and measure its leakage of low-frequency radio energy. The ionized particles normally reflect or absorb almost all energy...
Crashing the Cabinet. In the face of heckling by table-banging Socialists, Adenauer once faltered. Strauss leaped to his feet, bellowed the opposition into silence as he argued that Russia was out to absorb Germany and that Germany's only hope lay with alliance with the West. "However much I like to see them talk to each other, I still would not like to see Dr. Adenauer and Dr. Schumacher [then Socialist leader] talk behind barbed wire in the Urals about what they should have done in the spring of 1952," he cried. Der Alte was so moved that...
Noting that public approval greets every new expenditure for the conquest of space, Rochow asked: "Aren't we actually witnessing a phenomenon which has interest, enthusiasm, which can absorb energies and masculine drive, and which could make the question of war passe...