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...were offered," he observed. "But I can tell you now that I return more confident and hopeful than when I left." Though the trip may have had little impact on the Viet Nam war, Johnson had seemingly managed to convince Asian leaders that the U.S. was genuinely willing to expend its treasures to guarantee the security and prosperity of the western Pacific and to help the area develop a new sense of regional cooperation. Whether or not that realization was worth the effort and expense, said the President, "history will decide...
Like many another grocery chain, Cincinnati-based Kroger Co. is usually far too busy stocking its shelves to expend much effort on law enforcement. Yet various forms of larceny are a serious problem (TIME Essay, Sept. 9). The company loses more than $8,000,000 annually from customer shoplifting, employee thefts, and the filching of some 10,000 shopping carts. Deciding that stealing has gone far enough, Kroger's management last week called on one of the U.S.'s top cops for help. Cincinnati's Police Chief Stanley Schrotel, 52, quit his municipal job to become head...
...strength, insects are incommensurable with mammals; their muscle strands are relatively shorter and more numerous. A highly trained human athlete can expend energy at 20 times his basic metabolic rate, but only for a brief period; any old insect can raise the rate to 50, and keep it up for hours. It is no trick at all for a large African grasshopper to catch and kill a mouse, and giant water bugs commonly capture and devour small snakes. Almost any beetle can lift 850 times its own weight; to do as much, a man would have to lift 62 tons...
...along with Japan as a bulwark against Chinese Communist expansion in Asia. In the talks, he would gently insist that India must take steps to control its population growth, revamp its outmoded agricultural methods, and find some modus vivendi with Pakistan so that the two bitter foes do not expend their economic resources arming against each other...
...SALV ADOR Volunteers will work with local extension agents throughout the country to help expend and strengthens 4-H clubs. They will be responsible to the national 4-H supervisor...