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...Henning, who created The Beverly Hillbillies, is obviously attempting to corner corn. He has produced another CBS comedy called Petticoat Junction, a kind of Hickadoon through which runs an old steam train called the Hooterville cannonball. The railroad company is threatening to put the train out of service. Why bother? The Nielsen Limited is barreling up the track the other...
...project turned into a political target for labor leaders, was hit by 14 strikes. Because of haste in starting, the government did not even bother to take overall bids, proceeded on a piecemeal, cost-plus basis...
...lied to them, they said, and the U.S. embassy has shunned them for years. They play up gripes from junior officers in the field but consider General Paul Harkins, Commander of the U.S. Forces in South Viet Nam, too evasive for his statements to be taken seriously. They seldom bother to see Diem government officials because, they say, the effort only gets them either more lies or runarounds. They have no apologies for their total dislike of the Diem government, but regardless of their personal feelings, they insist, their reporting has been as accurate as the confusing conditions permit...
Compelling Reasons. Why is the U.S. going to all the expense and bother involved instead of just shooting the missiles into the ocean? For one thing, land shots make for much more precise measurements of impact areas than do missile shoots into the ocean. For an other, sending a few Jeeps into the desert to pick up the pieces of an impacted missile is a whale of a lot cheaper than sending a flotilla of Navy cruisers all over the Atlantic or Pacific to look for a rocket launched from Vandenberg or Canaveral. And finally, White Sands has more monitoring...
...Wright Morris' lesser and funnier novels, Love Among the Cannibals, some American tourists are marooned in the boiled-water area of Mexico when their great, gaudy auto breaks down. The natives do not bother them, but each morning there is less of the ridiculous vehicle left. The door han dles and the four wheels go first; a day later the sparkplugs, carburetor and windshield; finally the engine block, dashboard and radiator...