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...just isn't any perfection." As if to prove that point, a General Electric Co. study made public last week itemized more than 1,300 flaws in an Apollo spacecraft being readied for an unmanned test flight later this year; most of the bugs were the kind that crop up routinely in early stage development of any complex technical project...
Other names will doubtless crop up as the field begins forming: Ohio's Governor James Rhodes, who won a second term by a landslide 700,000 votes in November, though some of his colleagues consider him a lightweight; General William Westmoreland, though he would have to come home with a clear-cut victory in Viet Nam and that is at best a remote possibility. As for potential Vice Presidents, the country is crawling with them. There are Washington's Governor Daniel Evans, Rhode Island's Governor John Chafee, Massachusetts' Senator Edward Brooke and New York...
...attackers were tens of thousands of the very Red Guards whom Premier Chou En-lai last month ordered back to school. Those orders were part of a general damping down of revolutionary chaos in the interests of getting the spring grain crop planted and the economy moving. But last week's youthful display indicates that Mao has changed his mind about any letup. Wall posters, in fact, reported that Chou and other Maoist officials publicly admitted that it has been a mistake to disband the Red Guards...
...Chicago Cubs lineup includes three genuine major leaguers to two for the New York Mets. On the mound, Leo Durocher is going with an exciting crop of unproven youngsters like Ferguson Jenkins, Ken Holtzman, Dick Nye, and Ray Culp. Wes Westrum is counting on a stale harvest of sure-fire hard-luck losers: Jack Fisher, Don Cardwell, Bob Shaw, and Ralph Terry...
Finally, there were the rookies; and their flirtation with fame may very well end as soon as the pitchers throw them a few "jugs"-curves. But so far, at least, the 1967 harvest looks like a bumper crop...