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...plan to document the route carefully, providing up-to-date information on reads, rivers, and villages, and the avail-ability of fuel and water," said Warren M. Zapol, leader of the group, a senior in Life Sciences at M.I.T. "Extreme conditions vary from the Dasht-i-Lut desert in eastern Iran at 120 degrees F to cold nights in the Himalayas of northern India. The basic purpose of our trip is to make better known a little know portion of the world...
...chaos, and the rest are older nations now undergoing a turbulent transition of new expectations. Our efforts to help them help themselves are small in cost compared to our military outlays for the defense of freedom. Yet all of our armies and atoms combined will be of little avail if these nations fall...
...Philip Hart, hoped to beat them to the launch. After getting nowhere with NASA brass, the zingy mother of eight (who has logged some 2,000 flying hours and last summer passed the astronauts' screening physical) decided to go to what she thought was the top. To no avail. "He was very interested," sighed Janie Hart after 30 minutes with National Aeronautics and Space Council Chairman Lyndon B. Johnson, "but he said he doesn't have the authority to make any decision...
...fulfilling his obligation, the President is free to pick his confessor (most Catholics confess to whatever priest happens to be avail able) and to switch to another if he does not find him satisfactory. The Pope usually announces the identity of his own confessor, who is currently an old friend of his from Venice, Msgr. Alfredo Cavagna. But this procedure would obviously be impractical for the President, since it would focus embarrassing publicity on his confessor, attract undue attention to the President's private religious life...
...efficiency, Belin's committee cut out several standing committees which, they argued, "served no useful purpose." Among the casualties was Vellucci's Committee on Roads and Bridges. At the next meeting, before a vote be taken on the revised rules, Vellucci's Committee suddenly reported out --but to no avail. In a five to vote, Vellucci lost his campaign the revised rules rejected...