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...Marked Deck. Some Republicans and a handful of Democrats repeatedly lost bids to amend the authorization downward and impose administrative restrictions. Amendment after amendment went down in voice votes. The opposition came close only once, on the issue of the Governor's veto, when it lost a teller vote 155 to 150. Still, there were some lively protests...
...asked to double the appropriation and still retain a half-time director." Pennsylvania Democrat John Dent liked the program's aims but charged both Republican and Democratic Governors with using the program for political purposes-"both in the same poker game, and both have the same marked deck." New Jersey Republican Peter Frelinghuysen taunted Democrats about difficulties at some OEO centers (TIME, July 16). "Many mistakes have been made," Frelinghuysen said, "yet we try to brush them under the rug. This program does not deserve an additional penny...
...took on a flight of U.S. jets twice their speed and bagged a brace. Last week the technological superiority of American planes and weapons asserted itself: missile-armed Phantoms flying combat air patrol 40 miles south of Hanoi nailed a pair of audacious MIGs, sent them flaming to the deck. The run-in proved again that Giap's airmen would face disaster if they came up in force; and Giap's navy has practically disappeared after four months of U.S. air attack...
...Prudential freighters would never have to dock. Each would carry its cargo in 50 large barges stowed in its hold; when the mother ship approached port, giant deck cranes would lift off the barges, which would then easily maneuver into port. Meanwhile, the mother ship would lift on a fresh load of barges and turn right around for another voyage. By this method, Prudential estimates, cargo would be loaded at the rate of 1,000 tons an hour, compared to 1,000 tons a day loaded on conventional cargo ships...
...Michael Anderson's case, it is a cottage with a sun deck on Sea Island's five-mile stretch of white fine-grained beach whose gentle slope is ideal for her two small children, Sayle, 4, and Jody, 1. Such a beach would be hard to find in all of Europe. And more and more Americans are realizing that the U.S. has some natural advantages that can outmatch Europe's best. Europe, for example, has no stretch of shore that surpasses Cape Cod's Great Outer Beach with its soaring bluffs; no mountain lakes that are more breathtaking than those...