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...G.O.P. ticket on your cover is just great. These divorced men could use as their campaign slogan, "RENOvate in '68." This combination would be a boon to millions-the Democrats...
...turned out, the liberals' effort to add a $2.8 billion, two-year emergency job scheme was a boon for the Administration. Their attempt, promoted by Pennsylvania Democrat Joseph Clark and New York Republican Ja cob Javits, consumed so much of the Senate's time and attention that mo tions to deprive OEO of its major func tions were virtually brushed aside. Then a coalition of Republicans and South ern and small-state Democrats buried the Clark-Javits proposal, 54 to 28. Ver mont Republican Winston Prouty tried for a compromise figure of $925 mil lion for one year...
After the war, Kroyer plunged into candymaking-a short-lived venture that produced a long-term boon. Because of the sugar shortage, he had to come up with a cheap way of making glucose, and his process has since become standard in 52 plants around the world. That made Kroyer's reputation and gave him a top tinkerer's prerogative: he could practice his wizardry on demand, rather than out of desperation. More often than not, he says, "my inventions have been made because somebody came and asked me to make them...
Died. H. H. (for Hsiang-hsi) Kung, 86, Nationalist Chinese banker politician who became brother-in-law to Ge eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek when he married into the powerful Soong banking family, as Finance Minister from 1933 to 1945 introduced the boon of standardized paper currency, but during his premiership (1939-45) was helpless against the war-wrought inflation that left China sliding toward bankruptcy, after which he was eased into honorary jobs and retirement in the U.S.; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...scars do not differ markedly in number from those on the earth-oriented face. They only seem fresher and more numerous because the far side has not undergone the vast, more recent flooding of dark, possibly volcanic, material so evident on the near side. The disparity should prove a boon to scientists, since the result is that the moon's early history is that much more legible on the hidden side...