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...Like Atlas. Yet the IMF meeting could easily be dominated, not by discussion of the shape of a new system, but by foreign complaints against the 10% surcharge that Washington slapped on U.S. imports in August. If so, the momentum toward basic financial reform might well be lost, and foreign countries would be tempted to retaliate against U.S. goods and investments. That would not only create an impossible climate for monetary bargaining, but would threaten the world prosperity that depends largely on relatively free circulation of goods, money and travelers across national borders...
...refused even to spell out Washington's conditions for ending the surcharge, implying that it was up to other nations to put together a package of currency revaluations and trade concessions that might satisfy the U.S. Indeed, he has infuriated Europeans by remarking gratuitously that the U.S. "like Atlas, has been holding up the world for the past 25 years...
...Hassan forces, under Interior Minister General Mohammed Oufkir, quickly rallied. A gaunt, laconic Berber from the Atlas Mountains, Oufkir has been unswervingly loyal to Hassan. Four years ago, after the Moroccan leftist Mehdi Ben Barka disappeared in France, the De Gaulle government tried and convicted Oufkir in absentia for murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment...
...knocked off a 60,000-word Doc Savage novel almost every month for nearly 15 years. As stories, most of them are bloody good. He is a funhouse mirror of the America that loved him and apparently still does-a big square joe with the body of Charles Atlas, the brain of Thomas Edison, and the implacable innocence of Mickey Mouse...
Kistiakowsky's post-war research assisted the military in developing the Polaris submarine and various missiles, including the Atlas, Minuteman, and ICBM. "Until I actually became involved in the activities of the White House office, in 1957, I saw my role as that of a technician." Kistiakowsky became a full-time assistant to President Eisenhower in December 1'58. "These years were the eye-opener," he said. "I realized I'm no stupider than the policy makers. I realized how military policies are themselves stimulant to the arms race. The air of innocence with which our political leaders represented...