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...insights to the response in humans. So useful are cats that tens of thousands of them disappear into the nation's labs for experiments each year. Although researchers have studied cat brains with infinite care, none have discovered the secret of the cat's singular sound. The apparatus and meaning of purring remain a mystery of feline behavior, one of many unexplained traits that remain as folklore...
Haig also commands international respect. After entering the higher level foreign policy apparatus as an aide to former Secretary of State Henry. A Kissinger '50, he served as commander of NATO forces. To those who would have Haig replaced, one might suggest the words of the Austrian statesman, Prince Metternich, who once said, "An intelligent man can make up the lack of everything except experience." At a time when the question of nuclear weapons deployment on European soil threatens the alliance as never before, the respect Haig commands among European leaders may prove invaluable. But this potentially tremendous influence...
...current Washington rumors has a major shakeup in the foreign policy apparatus in the near future. In a town that has not been receptive to Haig in the past, this news does not bode well. Certainly he could be replaced by another man with comparable qualities. But a change in personnel is rarely desirable and may even set back the administration as it confronts its may foreign policy problems. Instead, if the president is wise and if American is to gain, Alexander Haig will remain Secretary of State...
...routine medical examination. Nonetheless, the President was in good humor during an Oval Office conversation with TIME White House Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett the morning after victory in the Senate. Reagan's mood turned from mellow to flinty on only one subject: criticism of his foreign policy apparatus and recurrent rumors that he wants to get rid of either Secretary of State Alexander Haig, National Security Adviser Richard Allen, or both. Reagan moved forward in his wing chair, literally leaning into the question. Excerpts from the interview...
...well as the Canadian builders, will be especially concerned with the tests of the robot arm. Truly, who will work the space crane with hand grips at an observation post in the back of the command cabin, had originally been scheduled to try the arm's gripping apparatus on a fixture in the cargo bay. But the trial was scrubbed because of problems with the arm's hand, known in NASAese as an "end effector." Eventually, the spider-web-like wire snare should be able to capture any satellite equipped with appropriately mated hooks. On this voyage, Truly...