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...Sebastião Paes de Almeida, 53, a multimillionaire industrialist-turned-politician, thrown out of the gubernatorial race for "abuse of economic power"-his legendary largesse at election time has earned him the nickname "Tião," after a famed Brazilian train robber. The state electoral court refused to cancel Paes de Almeida's candidacy. "If that section of the law does not apply to him," grumbled one Castello Branco aide, "we might as well...
...raid, reports Schlesinger, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, backed by McGeorge Bundy, convinced the President that the D-day morning raid "would put the U.S. in an untenable position." Everyone, says Sorensen, would have regarded it as "an overt, unprovoked attack by the U.S. on a tiny neighbor." Kennedy canceled the second strike; he changed his mind later, but after the strike was reinstated, it was rendered useless by bad weather. Sorensen carefully points out that Kennedy did not-as is often maintained-"cancel U.S. air cover" for the landing, for the simple reason that such U.S. air cover...
...expands, it turns the hollow cylinder that surrounds it. Compression and release of the spring occur, alternately, 1,800 times a second. The turning force of the cylindrical mass is what turns the operating end of the wrench. The rapid rotation and counterrotation of cylinder and motor all but cancel each other out and absorb about 96% of the reaction. This is more than enough to enable an astronaut to turn a nut without being turned himself...
Last week the industry was tied up in the fourth week of a strike by three of the industry's eleven unions. Though one of the unions came to terms at week's end, some 70 vessels remained idle, and five passenger ships were forced to cancel lucrative summer sailings. The gut issue is the demand for higher wages and pensions-to offset the effects of automation of the kind that Johnson and Skouras propose...
...perfect choice for the movie version of Billy Budd (1962) are a crucial drawback when he has to reason maniacally: "There'd be a bloomin' lot more of this if enough people had the time and money." His fixed stare and halting accents never quite cancel out the suspicion that he is just the sort of menace a comely bird might yearn to be imprisoned by-a vaguely Heathcliffian introvert reviving a Brontë romance in modern dress. Thus Actress Eggar dominates the film, not by better acting but by seeming hand-in-glove with her role. Plucky...