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...Sidecar. For the next six weeks, as the three party leaders crisscross the republic on their campaign trains, their speeches will underline how fundamentally similar their views all are. All three are in favor of "new initiatives" in German reunification and for continuing support of NATO and the European alliance. On domestic issues, there are only some small differences. If Erhard fares well but misses an absolute majority, he will probably call on the more congenial Free Democrats again, but some of his followers are muttering about the possibility of a "grand coalition" with the Social Democrats if he does...
...always been the proud boast of the U.S. armed forces that their pilots would go to extravagant lengths to rescue comrades in trouble. Helicopters flap into impossible places to save plane-crash survivors; skindivers drop to the aid of downed astronauts; search-and-rescue craft crisscross vast areas of ocean. And now the lifesaving arsenal has a new weapon: the military Skyhook developed by Connecticut Inventor Robert E. Fulton...
...course, nobody who has ever met Lyndon Johnson believes that he will actually stick to this stay-at-home schedule, but in the meanwhile Humphrey has been assigned to crisscross the nation in a continuous, hard-hitting campaign. He will concentrate on the Midwest, the Rocky Mountain states and the South, is already scheduling trips into North Carolina, Georgia, Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas, Florida and Louisiana. He may also whistle-stop in California, Illinois and Indiana...
Nonetheless, last week the young Hoosier was getting quite a name for himself. On the side of the New York State Pavilion at the World's Fair is an Indiana "mural" made up of the letters E, A and T in a crisscross, which draws an occasional visitor in search of hot dogs or pizza. It is supposed to flash on and off with hundreds of lights, but every time the fair people plug it in, it blows its own fuse. His poster for the opening of the ballet theater hangs in Lincoln Center. A show of recent work...
Peter was 23 and an architecture student in Leningrad. He was eager to talk, and so we spent several evenings together in youth cafes or walking along the hundreds of canals that crisscross the city. Words spilled out of him in an excited, headlong flow...