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...symbol of international trade. In his talk, the President restated his essential argument for his bill: presidential authority to slash tariffs is required to keep the European Common Market open to U.S. exports. "In May of 1962," he said, "we stand at a great divide: we must trade or fade. We must either go backward or go forward...
...stretch turn, exhausted, Ridan bore out and began to fade. The lead changed hands three times. In mid-stretch, Ridan gallantly came on again-only by now it was too late. On the far outside, Hartack was making his move. Chopping viciously with his whip, he drove Decidedly past the winded Ridan, past all the others. At the finish, Decidedly was 2¼ lengths in front...
Kenya's present woes will fade if African leaders succeed in convincing the nervous whites that land ownership rights will be protected after Kenya gets independence (probably by 1964). But black hotheads on the fringes keep muttering, "Throw the whites out," and African politicos spend far too much time bickering or jockeying for power. It will be some time before the growing black middle class develops a sense of responsibility, as the head of the Kenya African Chamber of Commerce and Industry admits. In an angry letter chiding his members for misusing government loans and grants, he wrote...
More could be adduced from these figures. For example, they call into question assumptions I know to be current--that advanced standing students falter badly in their first traumatic year, or that they fade badly in a premature year of thesis or generals. In many ways the tables tend to provoke discussion on a false premise, since theoretically we hoped these students would do as well as other undergraduates, and have no particular basis for expecting to do better...
...with the help of feminine methods that seem to be universally practiced persuades him to turn the moon rocket into ("Captain? H-his voice is changing. No! Th-there's a woman in the capsule! CAPTAIN! WHAT'S GOING ON UP THERE!") a honeymoon rocket. At the fade all systems...