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...Year Mission. Much as he craves the chance, New York's senior Senator will not be seriously hurt if he never gets it. The important thing to him is to help the G.O.P.'s moderates and liberals hold their own for a few more years. By then, a whole crop of bright young Republicans will have matured?Oregon's Mark Hatfield, Rhode Island's John Chafee, Ohio's Robert A. Taft Jr., Washington's Daniel Evans, and Illinois' Chuck Percy, to name a few?and be ready to take over. "My political mission for the next two years is clear...
...some ways, Hanoi is even prospering. A good rice crop after two mediocre ones has put more food in the shops, and people look well-fed. Uncle Ho's austere example in private dress is losing emulation: Hanoi women are beginning to blossom in bright, gaily patterned blouses, and modest but earnest suits are replacing the peasant tunics of the men. "The State Store," once an elegant French department store, offers secondhand violins, guitars, and there are tennis rackets, jerseys and soccer boots for the boys who still gambol under the Red River Bridge. But there are also shortages...
Chicken farmers on the Orkney and Shetland islands off Scotland's northern coast were stuck with 2,000,000 eggs and no way to get them to market. On the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, potato farmers worried about how they would ship this year's crop to Britain...
...called the "Sumerian game," a player-king is asked how he wants to use the natural resources of the ancient kingdom called Sumer. He must decide, for example, how many bushels of grain to store, how many to distribute to his people, how many to plant for the next crop. The computer informs him of the effects. It recently told one inept king: "Your population has decreased to zero. Call the teacher." Both in and out of class, a complex logic-stimulating game called "Wff 'n proof," played with cubes on a board, is becoming a campus...
Construction men now use the whirlybirds to lift church steeples and TV towers, telephone poles and prefab homes. The machines have become the most up-to-date tool for crop dusting, spraying, seeding, fertilizing; on giant ranches, one copter can do the work of 18 cowboys herding cattle. One New Orleans copter taxi operator ferries 180,000 oil workers a year to offshore rigs. The U.S. Forest Service blows out woodland fires with the downdraft from whirling rotors. New York Mayor John Lindsay is having a $3,000 helipad built in the East River beside his official home, Gracie Mansion...