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...record 3,000,000 Americans expected to go overseas this year, very few will run afoul of foreign laws. Those who do can expect fair treatment, even in many Communist countries. Everywhere, the troubled tourist's best friend is the U.S. consul, reachable from remote places by wiring "Amconsul" in the nearest large city. Today, the consul negotiates from strength-no one wants to discourage a mounting influx of U.S. tourist dollars...
...film's heroes, unmistakably, are American Engineer George Peppard and Dutch Engineer Tom Courtenay, both smuggled into Germany with false papers to volunteer for work at a secret underground rocket center. Courtenay runs afoul of the Gestapo while Peppard struggles with cumbersome explanations as to why everyone can safely speak English. He gets help from Innkeeper Lilli Palmer, spends an edgy night with Sophia Loren because he happens to be impersonating her dead husband. Loren's brief role seems little more than a favor to her real-life husband, Carlo Ponti, who is Crossbow's producer...
...what quantity. The New York City Bar Association last week staged a mock trial in which it subpoenaed computerized business records as evidence, thus raising questions about how to cross-examine a computer and who to blame when a machine's decisions cause a corporation to run afoul of antitrust laws...
After its big boom in Georgia, the U.S. space program ran afoul of a fizzle in Florida. At Cape Kennedy the three liquid-fuel motors of an Atlas-Centaur rocket ignited on schedule, but the missile that was supposed to toss a dummy Surveyor (soft-landing vehicle) to the moon's orbit, climbed only a few feet before a valve misfunctioned and the rocket fell back on its pad. Thin-walled fuel tanks ruptured, and more than 100 tons of liquid oxygen and kerosene burst into flames. The hydrogen-burning second stage added tons of liquid hydrogen...
...47th month has failed so badly that food output has not kept pace with population growth Unemployment is soaring, and per-capita income has failed to gain for three years. To bolster the economy, India is wooing private foreign capital, but this effort, too, has run afoul of high taxes India requires foreign investors to have a local partner; usually, the Indian finds he cannot raise his share of the money...