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...from top pros in just about every sport or hobby the loved one may want to learn -from skiing to swimming, bronc busting to piano playing. Prudently, perhaps, the company does not offer courses in poetry, philosophy, painting or other such pastures to which it might be difficult to attach a price tag-or a buyer...
...towns, who went South to impose a new sensibility on white people in America's least developed section. And it includes suburban liberals willing to fight for integration to the last South Bostoner. Partly the pattern depends upon the special importance some people with little access to real power attach to those advantages they enjoy. Partly it grows from the unwillingness of people with more real power to sacrifice some of it, however they may compromise, when it comes to their working-class cohorts...
Carbon monoxide (CO) produces its poisonous effect by crowding out oxygen molecules that normally attach themselves, in the lungs, to the hemoglobin molecules in red blood cells. By a malign quirk of nature, CO has an affinity for hemoglobin more than 200 times as great as that of oxygen. Thus too much carbon monoxide starves the body of oxygen, causing illness and sometimes death-as in the case of the suicide who runs a hose from the engine exhaust to the inside of his car. But how many Americans are inhaling an excessive amount...
Ford did not explain what conditions he would attach to clemency; he will determine that after Attorney General William Saxbe and Defense Secretary James Schlesinger report to him before Sept. 1 on the problem. But it seemed probable that some kind of public service will be the price for amnesty. No one knows for certain how many men would be affected. Ford set the total of draft evaders and deserters at 50,000, a figure perhaps largely based on Government estimates of 4,400 draft evaders, 8,900 men actually convicted of breaking the Selective Service...
Mike Collins was always different from other astronauts. Many harbored childhood memories of their fathers looking for work during the Depression, or of no money for the movies. Mike was born in Rome, where his father was U.S. military attaché. By the time Mike was graduated from West Point in 1952 his father was a retired two-star general, his older brother was a colonel, and his uncle, J. Lawton ("Lightnin' Joe") Collins, was Army Chief of Staff...