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...true that there is a movement afoot among Texas Republicans to pay Billie Sol Estes' fare to Hyannisport...
...time during the fall there was a plan afoot to use the Briggs Cage for practice during the winter. This was foiled by lack of available Briggs Cage time...
Right now, the editors have other projects afoot for the weeks and months to come, adding the unique and vivid impact of color to the drama of the world's news...
Moscow's millions knew something was afoot even as they awoke and dressed for work one morning last week. The radio was droning out the full text of a long government communiqué. First came the strident buildup: "The United States and its allies are fanning up the arms race . . . preparing a new world holocaust while the Soviet government strives for peace. The Soviet Union considers it its duty to take all necessary measures...'' Slowly, as the high-charge prose unwound, the reason for all the excitement began to dawn on the Muscovites: the Kremlin had decided...
Tunnels & Towers. Streams of skilled workers and a continual coming and going of scientists from many laboratories create the air of important things afoot. The number of employees of Reynolds Electrical & Engineering Co., which supplies nonscientist help, has jumped to 1,600 from 878 in 1960. Total employment at the site is now about 2,500. On the great barren area (40 miles by 30 miles), the AEC is testing a nuclear rocket engine, Project Rover, and a nuclear ramjet, Project Pluto (so far non-explosively), is also using chemical explosives to make studies of craters. Since most nuclear authorities...