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...uses will be military. The mod ern world is alive with harried men who must make some sort of effort to watch two things at once. Airplane pilots coming in for a landing would be happy to keep their eyes on their instruments while still scanning the ground ahead. Electrocular, say Hughes engineers, will solve their problem. It will also help surgeons to go about their work even while they are watching instruments reporting the second-to-second condition of the patient's heart and other vital organs...
...British differences, the two nations actually worked in the closest unity; Britain's Lord Home was being at least as tough on Berlin as Secretary of State Dean Rusk. At Luxembourg, no one believed that De Gaulle or any other power could in the long run prevent West ern European unification. As a prominent politician once put it: "Europe takes three steps forward then one step back, but we arrive." And in Algeria the French army hit hard at the S.A.O., a fact that almost certainly meant the terrorist organization's death sentence...
Irreversible Commitment. The planned eight-year transition period will see a drastic reorganization of traditional European agricultural patterns. As governments strive to make their farms competitive, countless families from Bavaria to south ern Italy will be forced off marginal farms; in most cases, they will be drawn into Europe's industry, which faces serious manpower shortages. In West Germany alone, planners estimate that 1,000,000 farms will be abandoned or consolidated. (The new Market-wide fund will help compensate farmers forced off the land...
...teachers, from high schools in the ern Massachusetts area, will attend ses stressing clear, descriptive writ- the principles of logic and rhetoric, ern linguistic scholarship for improv- the teaching of grammar, and an oach to literature similar to the ods of the College's Humanities 6, old C. Martin, Chairman of the CEEB mission and Director of General ation A at the College, stated...
...subjects as Reza Shah, was an old-style, absolute monarch who rose from noncom to colonel to King, overthrowing Iran's slack-chinned, 130-year-old Qajar dynasty by force of arms. A wiry, hot-tempered martinet, the old Shah set out to manhandle Iran into the mod ern world, and he did not mind machine-gunning obstreperous peasants to do it. He abolished the veil, and when a Moslem imam criticized the Queen for not wearing one, roared up to the mosque in a convoy of armored cars, marched in, and kicked the priest in the stomach...