Word: aprill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article "Intelligence: Is There a Racial Difference?" [April 11]: Most American Negroes are at least 60% Caucasoid, regardless of skin color. Anyone with even a smidgin of intelligence himself plus a knowledge of genetics and U.S. culture patterns (among them sex) would realize that after over 200 years with a negligible number of African immigrants to augment the gene pool, there could be very few if any "pure" Negroes here at this time...
...enjoyed your commentary on the World Marble Championship [April 11]. The "upstart colonials" are, in fact, a group of stockbrokers who found themselves in the same pub during the recent New York Stock Exchange Wednesday closings. The transition from elbow bending to shooting marbles was a natural. While it is true that we failed to appear at the championship this year, we had good reason: the application form we requested last October arrived April 2-just two days before the contest. In any event, unless we lose our marbles, we will be there next year...
...Thanks for the news of the Lear Steam Racer, and for the comments on the old Stanley Steamers [April 11]. Allow me to correct one such: no Stanley boiler ever has blown up. Attempts were made to do this at the factory, and all that happened was the collapse of one of the 600 or so tubes with a big leak, but no disaster. This is of more than historic interest since a surprising number of old Stanleys have been lovingly restored, and are in use at antique car rallies and the like. It would be a pity...
...subsonic U2, which precipitated a major cold-war crisis when the Soviet Union shot down one piloted by Francis Gary Powers in 1960. Its replacement is the SR-71, the 2,000-m.p.h. Blackbird, which is probably the world's fastest airplane in sustained flight (TIME, April...
Before Charles de Gaulle vowed to resign "without delay" if Frenchmen reject his proposals in the April 27 national referendum, the polls showed an apathetic and uncertain electorate: 52% undecided or determined to abstain and the rest almost evenly divided. Last week the first poll taken after the general's ultimatum turned up results that would dismay a lesser man. A full 40% of the voters had not yet made up their minds, and the rest were still divided. Only 52% intended to vote oui for De Gaulle's program-and therefore for De Gaulle himself...