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...country's economy is still forcing basic changes. Last week in Paris Erhard threw his powerful support behind the plan to set up a free-trade area comprising eleven European nations (notably Britain) besides the Common Market's six. Always, to Europe's Socialists and faint of heart, he preaches his doctrine: "The most successful means for the achievement and retention of prosperity is competition. Only by competition can an economy expand to serve all people, especially in their capacity as consumers, and dissolve all advantages which do not result directly from higher performance. Free competition thus...
...dowager combing the Riviera for young blood," says Caitlin. Nonetheless, Caitlin, then 39, took an 18-year-old Italian iron miner as her lover. In part, Joseph, with his "attractive grave hardness," was an antidote to Dylan, who had been so finicky that he could pull an "all-out faint" at the sight of a mouse, and was "as useless as a penguin with his hands." In part, it was a Latin love call that Caitlin could not resist ("those wonderful whirlpools of dankly greasy, black grass hair, that it was an insult to the Creator not to fondle"). Caitlin...
...like everything that happens in the Middle East, every action compels counteraction, and the Syrian coup involves dangers as well as advantages for Russia. The faint-seeming response so far by the other Arab states and by the West is to the Syrian coup a recognition that a counter-show of force is not the best answer. Instead the need was to rally together all the discordant and touchy elements in the Middle East that can be united on the simple proposition of keeping any "imperialism." including Communism, out of their territory...
...Faint Whisper. The telescope is the baby of Dr. Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell, professor of radio astronomy at the University of Manchester. It was designed by Henry Charles Husband, and its cost (more than $2,000,000) was paid by the Nuffield Foundation and Britain's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Leading British companies vied to make the telescope as nearly perfect as possible. They succeeded so well that its moving parts (total weight 2,000 tons) sweep the great bowl across the sky as smoothly and inevitably as if the earth were moving...
...point in Britain, whose frequently leaden skies handicap optical telescopes. It is still a young science, with surprises coming thick and fast. A vast assortment of radio waves filters down from the sky. Some of the waves come from nearby planets and the sun. Others come from patches of faintly luminous gas, or from the clouds of cold hydrogen drifting among the stars. The new telescope is fitted for recording all these faint whispers on wave lengths from ten centimeters to about 20 meters. Since its great area allows it to gather much more radio energy than small rivals...