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...agent," he declared. (Actually, according to the Attorney General, Bingham had been spying for only about 18 months.) His confession came only a few weeks before the British government expelled 105 Soviet diplomats and other officials on charges of engaging in espionage. Bingham's contact, the assistant naval attaché at the Soviet embassy who was quickly sent home on leave, was refused re-entry into Britain...
...attach the utmost importance to our relationship with the U.S. Certainly there were some shocks last year. Concerning the President's visit to Peking, we had a talk about that at San Clemente, so I was not surprised by the outcome. We also dwelt on economic problems, some of which still remain, even though President Nixon ordered a wage-price freeze and made an agreement on a currency realignment. I hope very much that the U.S.'s economic well-being will be restored soon, because we are so dependent on the U.S. for our own well-being...
...Cornell Astronomers Carl Sagan and Frank Drake, Pioneer's flight into interstellar space is not only a scientific adventure but a rare opportunity. Thus they persuaded NASA to attach a unique plaque to Pioneer's antenna supports. Its purpose: to indicate where the far-ranging robot came from and who its builders were should Pioneer ever be intercepted by extraterrestrial beings...
...well-off suburbs cannot be serious." The suburbs, on the other hand, had a complaint of their own about the proposed limit on their ability to get their children the best that money can buy. Said Superintendent Christopher Warrell, whose district includes Sea Cliff: "This would hamper districts that attach more importance to education." Another suburban superintendent went further: "If a limit is put on us, I'll probably go shoot myself...
...they can decide in what order to tackle their tasks and even who their foreman will be. In another method, the men move along the line with the cars performing each successive assembly operation. The automakers are also rotating some assembly-line workers to different jobs. An employee may attach seat headrests one day, bore holes in the seat framework the next, connect back supports and lift seat cushions onto conveyor belts on subsequent days. At Volvo, some female assembly workers even spend one day every two weeks doing office jobs...