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Simian Line. What Dr. Achs and other medical "palmists" look for is half a dozen common abnormalities. A single deep crease, instead of two separated lines, from the base of the index finger to the base of the pinkie is known as a "simian line" (see diagram). It occurs with many disorders including mongolism and some rubella (German measles) defects. Also unusual is a radial loop pattern pointing toward the thumb in the ridges of any finger other than the index...
...longs to belong to NATO, although there is no military necessity for doing so: the defense pacts it signed with the U.S. in 1953 give it the same protection that NATO nations enjoy, and the U.S. military bases on its soil make it an active partner in Western defense. Three SAC bases, near Zaragoza, Madrid and Seville, although now being phased out as missiles take over from bombers, could be used as a U.S. staging area for any trouble in the Middle East or Africa. The great naval base at Rota, on the Atlantic side of the Strait of Gibraltar...
...Pittsburgh's Duquesne Club, where steelmen gather for grub and gossip, few names have stoked tempers faster than that of Norton Simon. The California industrialist, who uses his Hunt Foods & Industries, Inc. as a corporate base for buying into other companies
...Democratic-controlled lower house. Scranton can claim credit for promoting considerable industrial expansion in a state that had been experiencing some economic distress. In a period when governmental deficits are common, he has moved Pennsylvania's budget well into the black. This record, like his secure power base at home, will be very comforting if he takes another run at the presidency...
Died. Major General Irving L. Branch, 53, commander of the Flight Test Center at California's Edwards Air Force Base, where he headed the X-15 rocket aircraft program and in 1964 staged the first test flight of the experimental B70 supersonic bomber; when the T-38A supersonic jet trainer he was piloting crashed into Puget Sound during a bad-weather instrument landing at Seattle's Boeing Field...