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...Kevin H. White, Treasurer Robert Q. Crane, and Auditor Thaddeus Buczko, all Democrats and all men who have no connection with the Democratic party of the 1940's and 1950's. Their re-election, he says, demonstrates that the subruban vote will readily turn to a respectable or new-breed Democrat...
...Hallelujah! That special breed of man, the AID volunteer in Viet Nam, finally got some recognition [Oct. 21]. If the American people could get more news of that "other war" and the special men who wage it, everything that is being done in Viet Nam would be in clearer perspective. We are not just tearing down-we are trying to build there...
...basic concern of Williams' is the trend away from criminal law. "Trial lawyers are a vanishing breed," he says, "and criminal trial lawyers are well nigh extinct." Top lawyers in firms are concerned only with money matters, he believes, and much of the blame rests with the law schools themselves. One survey he cites shows that only seven out of 502 students polled after the first year of law school were favorably disposed to criminal law. For Williams, it has become a mission to travel among law schools, telling students to use himself as an example and skip the corporation...
...that business is another matter. Travelers already grumble at ticketing and baggage delays, and tomorrow's jumbo jets will require vast new ground installations that municipal airport authorities seem slow to start planning. In another use of aircraft, vertical, short-takeoff-and-landing craft and a new breed of jet helicopters (which have become highly developed in the Viet Nam war) may well provide a swift new intercity bus service, flying from fields scarcely larger than tennis courts...
Against the day when 6-105 and other thriving strains fall victim to new mutants of rust, Wahl is already working with Israeli Geneticist Daniel Zohary to breed fungi-resistant grain strains that will, like plasma in a blood bank, be immediately available for sowing in areas hard-hit by rust epidemics. They have already found new wheat and barley strains that are apparently resistant to rust. Says Wahl: "We must build up a bank rich in strains so that we are never again caught by a scavenger like...