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...Lisbon fumed. A year later, Delgado slipped back into Portugal in time for an uprising that collapsed with a halfhearted attack on the army barracks at Beja. When not quarreling with fellow exiles, Delgado spent the following years traveling in North Africa and behind the Iron Curtain trying to drum up support for his Front of National Liberation...
Such new problems only served to underscore the new epoch in communications that rose with the drum-shaped, 85-lb. satellite. In an age fast growing familiar with man's race beyond the confines of his own world, Early Bird reached back toward the earth and seemed to shrink it almost to room size. All by itself, the satellite blanketed more than one-third of the globe. If two more soar into orbit, for the first time in history it will be literally true that for every nation instant contact will be possible with every inhabited spot on earth...
...week's end Romney flew off to Europe with 75 businessmen on an eight-day, six-country swing to drum up international trade for Michigan. As a top possibility for the G.O.P.'s presidential nomination in 1968, he was asked the usual what's-your-political-future question by newsmen in Amsterdam. Replied Romney: "I have not yet decided whether to run for Governor or for the U.S. Senate...
...Carl Sanders of Georgia recently telephoned Keppel to protest: "My boys went extra lengths to change their systems. If any Negro wants to go to a white school, they are pledged to let him in. My God, what more do you want? Do you want us to advertise to drum up business...
...Washingtonians on official holiday (their second in as many weeks) crowding the elm-lined length of Pennsylvania Avenue in the abnormal (for Washington) 60 degree weather, the stately pearl gray Lincoln Continental limousine, dappled sunlight glinting from its vinyl roof, preceded by a 50-girl corps of the fairest drum-majorettes in a city renowned for them (having produced eight national winners since 1955), sandwiched between sixteen marching bands (especially flown in for the occasion from Bancouver) playing the works of John Sousa and Edward Elgar while live television cameras broadcast the parade across the nation and beamed...