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...nearly 2 to 1. In Germany, G.M.'s Opel subsidiary was gearing up for fall introduction of its new Kadett economy sedan which seemed certain to lift still higher G.M.'s 11% share of world auto sales outside the U.S. In space, the giant automaker's AC Spark Plug division won a $16 million contract to build the guidance system for the Apollo moonship. And good as all this was, General Motors' precise, silver-haired Chairman Frederic Garrett Donner, 59, was expecting even better. To a blue-ribbon business audience at New York's Waldorf...
...polls planned or under way in 30 states. Among his current clients: California's Governor Pat Brown, running for re-election against Richard Nixon; Philadelphia's ex-Mayor Richardson Dilworth, running for Governor of Pennsylvania (TIME, March 9). Most of Harris' political clients are Democrats - 80% ac cording to Harris, virtually 100% according to rival pollsters. Because his polls are "private," his mistakes are rarely aired; when he is right, he somehow gets widely publicized. In 1960 he thought Kennedy would win by a large margin, mispredicted such a key state as Ohio, but came out smelling...
...boat was tested at head early this month and, ac to Michael S. Horn '63, Club director, "performs extremely competition." The boats have for safety, but this does their racing speed...
When recently a couple of dissident South Vietnamese air force officers used two American AC-6 fighter planes to drop American-supplied napalm bombs on Ngo Dinh Diem's presidential palace in Saigon, the incident only dramatized the very uncertain character of United States' involvement with the South Vietnam regime. These pilots were not aberrant malcontents with a history of disloyalty; the leader of the attack was a squadron operations officer known as one of the best pilots in the South Vietnamese air force. The other, who managed to escape to the Cambodian border, described himself as a nationalist...
...national level to the FBI, for example, which by research and training has sharply improved local police departments while avoiding the onus of "federal control." Aid Without Strings. The opponents of federal direction have good reason for their wariness. Control in some form -intentional or otherwise - has long ac companied federal aid, largely because Congress traditionally grants such aid only for specific purposes. The National Defense Education Act, for example, gave a huge financial boost to science and foreign language study, but as a result many schools simply skimped on history and English-a clear case of "federal control...