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Flamencos & Astronauts. Even deter gents, capital offenders of eyes and eardrums, have begun to inject a light touch. Lever Brothers' Breeze includes a towel as a premium in its package, and spends much of its precious 60 seconds showing a man flamencoing in the bathroom, snapping the towel about his shoulders and abruptly turning into Jose Greco when the spirit moves him. Presumably his wife is Breezing the dishes, but she never appears...
Roosevelt, said Groves, was deter mined to prevent a military stalemate in Europe. On Dec. 30, 1944, as the Allied offensive bogged down in the Battle of the Bulge, Groves and War Secretary Henry L. Stimson went to the White House to brief F.D.R. about the progress of the nuclear program...
...confronted with problems as severe as those at home, but in the diplomatic field Shastri's vagueness and middle-course tendencies are less likely to cause trouble. Red China still occupies 14,500 sq. mi. of Himalayan India; the injection of massive U.S. military aid has helped deter Peking from pushing downhill into the oil-and rice-rich plains along the Brahmaputra adjacent to Burma. Pakistan - lately linked to Red China through a reciprocal defense agreement - remains India's implacable enemy. Shastri showed boldness at the run-in on the Rann, but again he compromised...
...Djakarta, his first ambassadorial assignment, he replaces genial Howard P. Jones, whose seven years of effort to win over Sukarno with tolerant understanding did not deter the Bung from continuing to heap contempt and ridicule on the U.S. Whether a blunter approach will bear fruit is anyone's guess. The U.S. sympathizes with Malaysia, but would like to cling to some friendly ties with Indonesia, however tenuous. Sukarno may be angry at the latest U.S. loan to Malaysia for military equipment, but the Malaysians of late have been equally miffed by the proposed sale of $4,000,000 worth...
...fact-finding process." Such decisions have been made retroactive because they raise doubts about the actual guilt of the prisoners. By contrast, said Clark, prisoners convicted before Mapp are no less guilty for having been deprived of the exclusionary rule. Mapp's prime purpose was to deter lawless police action now and in the future. "That purpose will not at this late date be served by the wholesale release of the guilty victims...