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Johnson's Law. Taking aim at inflation, however tentatively, the Administration shone the spotlight on business. In a telephone address to the 65-man Business Council, the President forecast record prosperity without inflation in 1966, made it clear that he expected businessmen to exert price restraint to match the effort of servicemen in Viet Nam. Said the President: "We can produce the goods and services we require without overheating the economy." Addressing the meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers a few days later, Richard Nixon evoked many businessmen's feeling that they are bearing the main burden...
...chief when the space agency was formed in 1958, but then bluntly told an overanxious Congress that rushing a man into suborbital flight made no more sense than "shooting a woman out of a cannon at a circus." Dryden settled for No. 2 and the chance to exert a restraining influence on the young scientists racing pell-mell to the moon...
Unstructured. A handful of white workers in Watts do in fact exert considerable influence. One of the most effective is Sue Welch, 26, a schoolteacher who runs a federally financed "Teen Post" set up this summer to keep Watts's kids off the streets. Her post is always jammed; she is affectionately called "Sue Baby." "When I first started working here," says Sue Baby, "white people must have figured I was a nymphomaniac with a special interest in Negro men-or even something farther out. It takes a while to be accepted here: these people have been fooled...
Next to intervene was Pope Paul VI, who stirred a flurry of approbation by announcing that he will fly to New York next month to address the U.N. on peace (see RELIGION). Though the Vatican can exert no physical or political power-as Stalin gibed: "How many divisions does he have?"-its influence over the minds of men in the past, and in Europe, has amounted to the moral equivalent of armed force. The question now is how much moral suasion can be brought to bear on a dispute between Pakistan's Moslems and India's Hindus-peoples...
...reaction. Thus, in a state of weightlessness, without gravity to anchor the man, an astronaut attempting to put together a space station while in orbit could not hope to use anything as simple as the big wrench with which a car driver changes tires. Every time he tried to exert pressure on nut or bolt, he would turn in the opposite direction. Martin's new tool, which will be tested on later Gemini flights, is designed to eliminate such reaction almost entirely. The spaceman's wrench, 10½ in. long, 9 in. high and 5 in. wide across...