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...editors and publishers. The U.S. suggestion drew immediate and harsh criticism from Arab and Israeli diplomats alike. Administration officials hastily emphasized that it was nothing but speculation and that the Russians had not even been consulted about the idea. Nonetheless, some diplomats interpreted the suggestion as an American trial balloon for an imposed settlement in the event that the present cease-fire erupts into a new round of fighting...
That, in the opinion of the University of Rochester's Dr. Robert M. Greendyke, is long enough for the huge forces that result to cause the inner lining of the aorta to rupture and balloon out into an aneurysm, or to be virtually sheared off at a point such as its isthmus immediately below the arch...
...thought that metal cans for food are made chiefly of tin." Among the Pleasant: "Ninety-two percent of nines and 98% of 13s know that a human baby comes from its mother's body. Seventy-eight percent of nines feel there must be a reason why a rubbed balloon sticks to the wall." As if anxious to grasp at any sign of U.S. educational maturity, Merrill also noted: "Eighty-nine percent of 17s knew that living dinosaurs have never been seen by men, The Flintstones notwithstanding...
Died. Albert Lamorisse, 48, French film maker (The Red Balloon, Stowaway in the Sky) whose aerial cinematics in high-spirited childhood fables enraptured international audiences in the '50s and '60s; when an Iranian army helicopter from which he was shooting a documentary hit a power line and crashed near Teheran...
Spinoza for Aquarians? No, just Architect R. Buckminster Fuller taking time out from designing, teaching, lecturing, pontificating and philosophizing to release his gas-filled balloon advertising the glories of technocracy...