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...stopped him with the information that she was a Republican, Jack grinned, replied : "I forgot my Nixon button." In Manchester, a motorcade of students from St. Anselm's College gave him an earsplitting welcome from 35 automobile horns, then mobbed him with such enthusiasm that Jack had to climb into an open convertible in order to be seen. Afterward, the college kids dragged out a reluctant donkey (rented for $20 by the efficient Kennedy organization), then followed Kennedy into a supermarket, waving homemade college-humor signs (PUT JACK IN THE WHITE SHACK, PUT A NEW JOHN IN THE WHITE...
...restart version of the Agena has not yet done its tricks in space, but in ground tests it has performed well. When used in the second stage of a satellite launcher, it will use most of its fuel to make the satellite climb toward a high apogee on the far side of the earth. Left to itself, the satellite would descend again to the low point (perigee) where it first went into orbit. But at apogee the Agena will fire a second time, giving enough additional push to put the satellite on a high, near-circular orbit, and keep...
...report, "is for federal financial assistance to the states that have extremely low personal incomes relative to the number of schoolchildren." In 1957-58, for example, eleven mainly Southern states with 22% of U.S. public school pupils spent less for education than 80% of the national average. To climb even to this level would have required a stiff (and "unlikely") spending boost, from 13% in Maine to 63% in Mississippi...
...hope the economic environment and financial conditions will prove so stable as to make another increase in the prime rate unnecessary." So Chairman John J. McCloy of Chase Manhattan Bank last week told stockholders. McCloy had plenty of evidence that the months-long climb in money costs, which has carried the prime rate to 5%, highest in nearly 30 years, has spent its force. At its usual weekly auction of 91-day bills, the Treasury was able to sell at a yield of 4.12%, down from 4.44% a week earlier and half a point under the high...
...times when the world seemed to be sitting on top of him. The son of a Chinese store owner, he studied painting in Hong Kong, moved to the U.S. at 18, worked as a houseboy, cook and factory hand. The WPA art program started him on his long, steep climb from the gaudy obscurity of San Francisco's Chinatown...