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...attack were being hunted down and shot on sight, the archbishop, an old friend of the family, rushed to get guarantees from authorities that Castro would not be harmed if he turned himself in. Last week Castro's old friend outspokenly condemned the Castro government's drift toward Communism...
...stuffed under his chin, the driver cramps behind the wheel like a frog in a walnut. Then the two dinky, 6-h.p. engines perched behind the seat begin to snarl, and the bedspring contraption becomes a hot, highly engineered racing machine that can hit 85 m.p.h. on the straightaway, drift through corners like a Maserati. Says one driver: "The feeling of speed is fantastic! Even at 30 m.p.h. you feel like you're leading the pack at Le Mans...
Nearly all responsible Ceylonese devoutly hoped that the United National Party of jowly Dudley Shelton Senanayake, 47, would win a decisive victory in the March election. After 3½ years of indecision, corruption and leftward drift under the Sri Lanka Freedom Party of assassinated Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, Ceylon badly needed a firm and honest hand on the tiller. But tardily proclaiming itself opposed to Communist influence, the Sri Lanka Party paraded Bandaranaike's weeping widow all over Ceylon, garnered enough sympathy to split the conservative vote, almost match (50 to 46) the U.N.P. in total...
Misgivings. The Deputies fell back, silenced, or complaining in lowered tones. The farmers federations only muttered their "very great surprise." From this brusque drama two conclusions were to be drawn: 1) it is still considered politically unprofitable to attack De Gaulle openly; and 2) clear as the drift to one-man government may be, Frenchmen by and large are willing to let it happen. Nonetheless, a considerable disillusionment with De Gaulle had set in. So far it was largely confined to Parliament and a few Parisian editorialists whose consent to one-man government was based on a belief that only...
Time measured by the rotation of the earth will continue to be used, in spite of its inconstancy, for catching trains or getting to the church on time. But the cesium clock will be the arbiter for super accuracy. It will have no cumulative drift and can be read with an error of less than three parts in 100 billion (one second in a thousand years...