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Buzz Aldrin might not have been an astronaut at all but for his persistence, raw determination???and good fortune. He was turned down when he first applied in 1962. Though he was a veteran fighter pilot (two MIGs destroyed, one damaged in 66 Korean missions for the Air Force), NASA regulations at the time demanded that astronauts be graduate test pilots. The next year, after the regulations had been eased to let in combat pilots with more than 1,000 hours of experience flying jets, Aldrin was accepted...
What They Got. Premier Bennett, shrewdest haggler of them all, went into the Conference with one supreme determination???to get from Britain the right of free entry for all natural products of the Dominions. Great Britain's tariff law enacted last March had imposed duties against foreign goods with the provision that these duties could be applied to the Dominions after next November. Mr. Bennett wanted a market for Canadian wheat, dairy products, poultry, lumber. Mr. Bruce wanted a market for Australian frozen meat. For this pair poky Mr. Baldwin was no match. Before they were through with him Britain...
Humble, hard-toiling, peasant-bred Lancashire has stood for other wage cuts, but this was to the bone. With quiet, orderly determination???with a self-control more intimidating to employers than any show of violence?500,000 steady and skilled workers stopped work on the day the wage cut became effective last week. They are craftsfolk. Out of the question to replace them with scab labor not skilled to spin and weave! The cotton strike, colossal in magnitude, damaging to a dozen allied British trades, world-wide in repercussions, was, at its focus in Lancashire, almost terrifyingly simple: a stark...
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