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...were influential in making each other's fortunes. Stevens has financed Faubus' career, while Faubus has consistently done all his all to smooth the path of the Witt Stevens Company, the Arkansas-Louisiana Gas Corporation (ArkLa), which Stevens controls, and the man's many other far-flung enterprises. Like many of his ilk, Stevens desires to keep in the background; and since nothing of the sort could be further from Faubus' mind, they are hand and glove...
...missile nose cones in the sleepy lagoon of Eniwetok. It is the habitat of strange "birds" with peculiar names-Samos, Discoverer. Midas, Nike-Zeus-whose flights are scratched across the sky in weird contrails and tracked by missile-watching machines on a California mud flat and in such far-flung outposts as Alaska, Hawaii, Kwajalein and Christmas Island. The PMR-for Pacific Missile Range-is the nation's largest testing and training ground for missiles and space apparatus...
...magazine, the minstrels, the English classes and the comic strips are all part of the complex and far-flung activities of the United States Information Agency. An independent organization, the USIA publishes 72 magazines and 20 newspapers, produces hundreds of movies and TV shows, operates 176 libraries in 80 countries. Best-known unit of the USIA is the Voice of America, which has 32 radio transmitters in the U.S. and another 55 abroad, beams programs in 37 languages from Arabic to Urdu. Gagging the Voice with 2,500 jamming stations annually costs the Communists more than the entire USIA will...
...Wall Street Journal's Pacific Coast edition (circ. 137,000), the Times), will introduce installment No. 1 late next year: a Los Angeles-based West Coast edition. It intends to solicit much of its circulation in the Los Angeles area. But the Western Times also intends to reach far-flung subscribers by airmail on the day of issue elsewhere in California, in Oregon and Washington, and possibly Alaska, British Columbia and Mexico. On a selective basis, the Times will also invade inland points such as Reno, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City and Phoenix...
...authorities.) Boroff has taken what may have begun as a reasonable contention, and distorted it into an irrational cavil. The time is not yet upon us when marriage and the bearing of children are considered ignoble goals. Boroff himself admits that "Smith alumnae are impressively productive, alert, and far-flung...