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Most spectacular was Weightman Hal Connolly, 1956 Olympic champion, who last year inexplicably failed to live up to his old form. Last week burly (6 ft., 230 lbs.) Hal Connolly, with one titanic heave, threw the 35-lb. weight 71 ft. 2 in.½-breaking the 70-ft. barrier and surpassing the previous record by an impressive...
Pete Quesada moved too fast to get caught. The biggest barrier to positive federal control of aviation, he found, was bureaucratic inertia, in which "the regulator was regulating to meet the needs of the regulated, and without due regard to the needs of the public." He solved that with a personnel shakedown and then began his massive attack. In quick time, Quesada...
...saddening fact about this welfare program, in Democratic eyes, is that even if the Democrats get it all past the President's veto barrier, the total political value may be slight compared to the appeal of the President's peace issue. Last week a newsman asked a top Democratic strategist how much he thought the welfare program, if enacted, would be worth to the party's presidential candidate next November. Said the strategist, after a moment of silent thought: "Nothing...
...notes Indian Finance Minister Morarji Desai, "has always had the ability to produce more food than he needs." Lack of mineral resources, often cited as an insurmountable barrier to the industrialization of many Asian nations, did not prevent the industrialization of Japan. Modernization is an intricate process, involving a balance between agricultural, technological and industrial growth. But given intelligent economic and political management and injections of Western aid, most-though not all-Asian, African and Latin American nations ought to be able to turn the trick...
POEMS, by Boris Pasfernak, translated by Eugene M. Kayden. No poet has ever with entire success hurdled the barrier of translation, yet it is plain in this first comprehensive Pasternak collection that the creative push is there, the unique vision that separates the poet from the poetaster...