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...destroy everything we hope for-including life itself. Many times in foreign relations the thing to do is not to be forthright." Michigan's Governor George Romney asked that the G.O.P. "unequivocally repudiate extremism of the right and the left and reject their efforts to infiltrate or attach themselves to our party or its candidates...
Swirling Innards. The circuits and their transistors are both made by automatic machines that turn them out by the thousand. Instead of hiring girls to attach hair-thin wires under the micro scope, the wiring is done by etching holes through a protective film of glass and shaking into them pellets of copper five-thousandths of an inch in diameter...
...citizens are beginning to attach more and more importance to a 6-in. by 12-in. piece of metal that is each man's uniquely private property: his auto license plate. And this means that for a growing number of families January is the crudest month. For that is when many new plates are issued, and it is getting so that there are not enough low numbers and letter combinations to go round-no matter what one may be willing...
...attach his name to the already established nearly mocks him. It also removes from our vocabulary curious, colorful words. "Cape Canaveral" was a beautiful name with a fascinating history; "Idlewild" was a splendid name for New York's international airport. "Cape Kennedy" and "Kennedy Airport" bear no real relation to the late President, and are by contrast gray and lifeless...
...Leopoldville last year, notably to the towering eight-story apartment building that is both embassy and residence for Soviet Ambassador Sergei Nemchina and his 100-man staff of operatives. Two of Nemchina's most important aides, his slim, fair embassy counselor Boris Voronin and stocky, bushy-haired Press Attaché Yuri Miakotnykh, have developed especially close contacts with extremists opposed to Premier Cyrille Adoula's moderate regime. Miakotnykh worked hard to penetrate the trade unions and left-wing student groups, even lobbied in the corridors of Parliament...