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Moving Movies. First-run motion pictures will be entertaining passengers on some of TWA's coast-to-coast jet flights beginning Jan. 4. The system, developed by New York's Inflight Motion Pictures, Inc., has an automatic projector in the ceiling and a screen at the front of the cabin for each class. So that passengers who want to read or sleep will not be disturbed, movie watchers wear featherweight ear sets with volume controls...
...need, says Monro, is coordination of all the talent hunters. Plaut of Nessfeness agrees. Last month he urged a coast-to-coast Higher Horizons program, costing up to $100 million, to be run by an agency patterned after the National Science Foundation. In Washington last week, top officials of the prestigious American Council on Education mulled ways to get Plaut's scheme started. As one of them put it: "Unlike gold, human talent is perishable. We can't let it lie in the hills until we get ready to mine...
...experience with men who want to lead and men who can lead, there is no question . . ."), and warning in a powerful last-minute offensive that a Democratic victory would mean inflation, high prices and cheap dollars. And there was Nixon himself, all but crowded out of a half-hour, coast-to-coast telecast by the prolonged reception for Ike's Manhattan speech, grinning widely and shouting: "I'm always glad to give up my time to the President of the United States...
Missionaries for Peace. In his own coast-to-coast hopping, Kennedy was content to stick pretty much to his tried-and-true "get America moving" theme, but as Election Day neared he was chancing more and more quips. Only in a San Francisco speech did Kennedy broach a new program. This was a call for a volunteer "Peace Corps" of "talented men and women" who would serve abroad for three years as missionaries of good will for the U.S., as an alternative or supplement to peacetime selective service. "I am convinced," said he, "that the pool of people...
From Six to 60. High sensation at relatively low speed and cost has turned the so-called "go kart" into the newest sensation in auto racing. Born in California three years ago, go karting has grown into a coast-to-coast sport and attracted something like 100,000 lead-footed devotees from six to 60. This year, say the addicts, another 100,000 will go kart crazy. New clubs are springing up at a one-a-day clip, and in California, a town of 5,000 can draw 10,000 visitors for a race. This week Westbury...