Word: convert
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...loyal supporter of Lyndon Johnson and one of those Democratic freshmen that Johnson would like to make sophomores, Gilligan had plenty to report. Some items: a $750 million defense contract for a local plant, $4.7 million for a housing project, $285,000 to help convert the old Union Station into a museum. For a number of such boons, he claimed personal credit, notably State Department sponsorship of a world tour by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra...
This week has been designated National ZIP Code Week by President Johnson and marks the beginning of an all-out endeavor by the Post Office to persuade people to convert to the ZIP code. Time Inc. began using the code in 1963 when the system began, and this week has a series of speakers at work promoting the system around the country. Last year less than 30% of the mail was ZIP coded, this year nearly 50%. Next year the Government hopes for 80%. For TIMEsubscribers the easy way to check for their own ZIP code is to look...
...about a machine. Sensitive young Leonard Cog (Moni Buegeleisen) resists the tyranny of the Brain Cells and their Gestapo, the Ball-bearings (led by Musical Director Liz Robbins), to convert the world-machine from harsh angles to flowing curves through sabotage and quiet confidence. All this requires an awfully large chunk of willing suspension of disbelief. If Leonard's weltanschauung is "smooth, round and beautifully spherical" why can't he and the "well-rounded" ball-bearings live in peace...
Never Such an Alarm. Once he became a full-fledged convert to the G.O.P., Reagan was eaeerly embraced by the party's conservative wing. They suggested that he launch a primary campaign to knock off Republican Moderate Tom Kuchel in 1962. Reagan said no but then backed Right-Winger Wright. He also turned down a suggestion that he take on Pat Brown for Governor that year. "I said that I would do everything short of running, that I would be a Paul Revere for other people." Never did Reagan sound the alarm so loudly...
Peace Profiteering. No industrial group has been more affected than metals. In short supply are nickel, molybdenum, vanadium and, most of all, copper. The Government has requisitioned 18% of the copper industry's production. In steel, high-priority Government orders have compelled Allegheny Ludlum to convert its special-metals subsidiary almost entirely to defense production and to delay deliveries of alloys to civilian customers in the transportation, construction, aircraft, electricity and even nuclear-energy fields. Instead of shutting down its Christy Park Works and laying off 500 workers, as it had announced last year, U.S. Steel Corp...