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...British pound was named for its weight in silver, and nationalistic France naturally named its money the franc. Last week Zambia announced that it would soon trade in its pounds, shillings and pence for something more poetic. In 1968 it will change to decimal currency and one kwacha (dawn) will be worth 100 ngwee (brightnesses...
...greater question, of course, was what Soviet science learned from the two probes. Very little is known about Venus. Second only to Mercury in nearness to the sun, its bright reflection makes it the last star to fade at dawn, the first to appear at dusk. In size, it just about equals Earth, and like Earth, it possesses an atmosphere. For years, scientists have speculated that life might exist on Venus. But the U.S.'s Mariner II, passing within 21,600 miles of the planet in 1962, radioed back data indicating that Venus' surface was dry, dead...
...other U.S. correspondents, McCulloch flew to Hawaii with the Premier, who lost $8 at poker during the 13-hour flight. TIME White House Reporter Hugh Sidey and State Department Correspondent Jess Cook arrived from Washington with President Johnson. After covering the conference, McCulloch and Cook were awakened by a dawn phone call informing them that the editors had decided on the Ky cover. The two correspondents interviewed and wrote during the entire trip back to Saigon; Cook then peeled off to accompany Vice President Hubert Humphrey on his Vietnamese tour...
...Viet Cong, who initiated the latest truce, shattered it almost immediately. Communist guerrillas fired on a U.S. Marine platoon near Danang, killing two sergeants. A fierce battle between Reds and South Korean troops near Tuy Hoa resulted in 53 Communist dead. In a pre-dawn raid by terrorists, a 25-lb. bomb exploded outside a U.S. billet near Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport, killing a U.S. soldier...
Perhaps it did not dawn on Morning Star that the courteous smiles she got from her countrymen concealed a healthy skepticism. The Japanese, like everyone else, know that calm has by no means returned to Indonesia. Since the Communists' coup attempt last September, the army has looked the other way while Moslem mobs killed at least 100,000 members and supporters of Indonesia's pro-Peking Communist Party. And now the purge was spreading south from Sumatra and Java to Bali. Nor was it the press of business that kept hubby at home; Sukarno is said to have...