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...largest public-works bill since 1963, and less opposition. Small wonder. Every state will get a piece of the action-a dam, a federal office building, a harbor-improvement project or some other goody that a Congressman can mention to his constituents. "Somebody ought to oppose the pork barrel," cried New York Republican Theodore Kupferman. Aside from Kupferman, whose Manhattan silk-stocking district got nothing...
Proven Principle. On the same day, Esso Petroleum of Great Britain held an oil disposal demonstration at its Fawley refinery near Southampton. Technicians poured a barrel of crude oil on a pond, then covered the slick with a shredded polyurethane foam developed by J. Bibby & Sons of Liverpool. The foam quickly turned black as it absorbed the oil. The oil-soaked foam was then simply trapped and towed ashore, where Esso showed how the oil could be pressed out for reuse...
Having scraped the bottom of the barrel, the makers of spy films are now scraping the sides, the top and even the outside in a frantic search for new stories. The spoofs are endless permutations of the number 007; the serious efforts are apt to be repetitions of Hollywood war games originally played in the 1940s...
People unaccustomed to writing have taken pencil in hand to carve smudgy letters of praise to the Courier. The comments echo those of a graying man sitting on a barrel at a gas station in Bessemer one summer afternoon: "That's a good paper. It's easy to read...
...rifle must be locked solidly into the shoulder, with the stock flush along the jawbone. The left hand is almost fully extended, holding the barrel, and the right hand snaps off the shot. The gunner keeps both eyes open and on the top of the target, since most shooters instinctively shoot low. He does not aim. "That's a dirty word around here," says a Benning sergeant...