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...discriminated against" should not, in any case, be asked to "carry the major burdens of preventing inflation." The six-man G.O.P. minority demanded "an immediate deferral of federal spending for nonessential and low-priority projects," though New York's Senator Jacob Javits cautioned that he would resist cur tailment of education, welfare and antipoverty programs...
...perhaps in a hayfield," as one official put it. For all the tips from fishermen and experts' calculations, the bomb could have landed just about anywhere over an area of scores of square miles, and the parachute could have acted as a sea anchor in the swift coastal cur rents, tugging the bomb into less accessible depths. Then, too, the sea floor's shifting mud might have ultimately hidden the bomb from view...
...19th century French academic who painted romances of gladiators and Napoleonic battles. Also from 1965's crop: Salvador Dali in the Act of Painting Gala in the Apotheosis of the Dollar in Which You Can See on the Left Marcel Duchamp Masquerading as Louis XIV Behind a Vermeerian Cur tain Which Actually Is the Invisible Face but Monumental of Hermes by Praxiteles. It covers quite a bit of art history in a style that describes Dali himself-a pastiche...
...battery, it was an entirely self-contained source of electricity, but it was far more than that. Esso's new fuel cell comes remarkably close to the achievement of a chemical engineer's dream: the use of a cheap fuel to pro duce practical amounts of electric cur rent without the aid of expensive engines or generators...
...Commended. As the cur tain of grief descended over Britain, the nation's life slowed almost to a halt. "In view of the nation's concern about Sir Winston Churchill," Prime Minister Harold Wilson postponed a major House of Commons speech and an economic report to the nation on TV, also put off an important round of talks with West Germany's Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. Britain was to have commemorated the 700th anniversary of the first Parliament last week, but in deference to Parliament's greatest son. Lords and Commons agreed to put off the ceremonies...