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Each year the bloodhounds-mostly hard-breathing Republicans and South ern Democrats-nip closer, but each year Eliza stays an inch or two ahead...
...Administration. Their attempt, promoted by Pennsylvania Democrat Joseph Clark and New York Republican Ja cob Javits, consumed so much of the Senate's time and attention that mo tions to deprive OEO of its major func tions were virtually brushed aside. Then a coalition of Republicans and South ern and small-state Democrats buried the Clark-Javits proposal, 54 to 28. Ver mont Republican Winston Prouty tried for a compromise figure of $925 mil lion for one year only, which elicited wider support - but not wide enough...
...early June afternoon the east ern Mediterranean sky was clear, the sea calm. The U.S. Navy communications ship Liberty, a converted Victory freighter, was steaming west-northwesterly at five knots, about 14 nautical miles off the Sinai Peninsula. Seconds later, lookouts sighted jet fighters bearing in from the southeast at 7,000 ft. A rocket slammed into Liberty's port side amidships, igniting two 55-gal. gasoline drums; a bomb struck the starboard side. The planes, sweeping down in teams of two or more, raked the ship with crisscross rocket and machine-gun fire, riddling hull and superstructure with...
German tourists and businessmen, of course, are ahead of the diplomats in discovering how to get along with the East. West Germany is second only to the Soviet Union in trading with East ern Europe, second to none in sending tourists. Mercedes and Opels with West German license plates line the streets in front of the best hotels in Bucharest and Prague. In summer German tour ists bask under Bulgaria's sun at low-priced Black Sea resorts; in winter they fly down the ski trails of Rumania's Carpathian mountains or the Tatra Mountains of Czechoslovakia...
Cursed by unrelieved warmth and sun, and by new production from south ern-Florida groves, the current crop will surpass last season's 100 million boxes (100 lbs. each) by 42 million. When the nine-month harvest ends in June, nearly 10 million boxes may be left to rot unsold. Oranges "on the tree" cost 75? a box to grow and last year brought a handsome $1.25. They are now going at a distress price of 35? a box, leaving growers with the prospect of a $50 million loss on the crop...