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...S.A.O. apparatus in France, depleted by frequent arrests, was further hampered by roadblocks, where police searched cars and checked identity papers. (They turned up an unexpected dividend by capturing one Jean Pierre Schecroun, 33, a former Beaux Arts student long wanted for his skillful forgeries of paintings by Braque, Leger and Picasso.) De Gaulle moved confidently ahead, appointing a trusted supporter, Politician-Diplomat Christian Fouchet. to the important post of High Commissioner in Algeria and naming a Moslem as chairman of the Algerian Provisional Executive...
...least those interested in Latin America have provided a "focus of attention" on the area by coordinating all the committees into an odd bureaucratic apparatus: the Inter-American (University-wide) Affairs Committee will act as an adviser to Pusey who is to determine basic policy for all future activity in the field. Unfortunately--ingenious as it is--the mechanism simply cannot free Latin American studies from its most binding limitation: lack of staff...
...humiliate others." He singled out the notorious Revolutionary Defense Committees-spies stationed in every city block, in all factories and farms-for special censure. And then he made his attack categorical: "The revolution has to re-educate all the revolutionary nuclei, and needs to revise the entire political apparatus of the revolution...
Drum & Sail. The heaviest part of OSO is a nine-sided drum containing batteries, radio equipment and position-control apparatus (see diagram). Mounted on a shaft running through the center of the drum is a semicircular "sail" covered on one side with solar cells to make electric power out of sunlight. While OSO was getting its final push from the launching rocket's third stage, both drum and sail were spinning rapidly. After it was fully in orbit, three arms carrying spherical tanks of high-pressure nitrogen swung outward, and small nitrogen jets reduced the spin to a steady...
...Because of design innovations and its head start in automation, the U.S. competes well abroad in farm machines, air conditioning, office equipment and electrical apparatus, and other highly tooled products...