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...Fares, a foe of the regime, who was interim President when Ben Bella first came to power in 1962. Disaffection reached into the Cabinet and was ruthlessly dealt with by Ben Bella. Out went the Minister of Interior, who resigned in protest against a decree ordering regional governors to bypass the ministry and report directly to the President. In Switzerland, Ben Bella moved swiftly against Mohammed Khider, the former revolutionary comrade who had fled into exile with a reported $1,200,000 in party funds. At Algeria's request, Swiss officials blocked Khider's bank accounts...
...That Clear? While Barry Goldwater inveighed against Big Government at Pennsylvania Military College in Chester, Lyndon Johnson argued at Swarthmore that Big Government would achieve the "Great Society." At the President's next stop on the academic circuit, Holy Cross College, he offered the hope that science might "bypass the politics of the cold war." Lady Bird thought it more important to stress peace of another kind, and told Radcliffe seniors to "avoid a conscious war with men" and to use their brains to become "not a superwoman, but a total woman, a natural woman...
...melting, and the afterburners, which are used continuously at high speed, run white-hot. The two boxlike air intakes, each one feeding three engines, are 80 ft. long and high enough for a man to walk erect in their gaping maws. They are rigged with movable walls, ports and bypass doors to keep the entering air at the right pressure and temperature. The engines are grouped close to the centerline of the plane so that if one of them fails, the loss of thrust will not cause a dangerous...
...sent first to the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi Democrat James Eastland. If left up to Eastland, the measure would stay in committee forever. Therefore plans have been made to "meet the bill at the Senate door" and, with the help of some complex and unusual parliamentary strategy, bypass Eastland's committee. But not even that will forestall a Democratic filibuster. And if anything is certain, it is that when the bill does come to the floor, its Democratic opponents will try to talk it to death...
Kenya might logically bypass the sixth form and let secondary graduates into the Royal College. "We are wasting people in the name of standards," says Chief Education Officer K. K. Mwendwa. But new nations understandably hesitate to lower the standards of what they have that is good, and until Kenya can build a substantial link between primary schools and colleges, it seems fated to go on being a strange combination of the adequate, the inadequate and the opulent...