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...hour after the meeting started, white and Negro students began to filter out of church; small groups drifted off towards Capitol building, while most of the students went in the opposite direction, towards campus of Alabama State, a Negro college, five blocks away...
Shortly before 1 p.m. more students began to filter into the area, a few at a time, until the opposite side of the street was spotted with about 40 whites and Negroes...
...biggest share of Alliance for Progress aid goes into long-term development programs, and it often takes a desperately long time to filter through government bureaucracies. To give ordinary Latin Americans a sense of progress now, the U.S. is backing a new program called "Partners of the Alliance." The idea is to match a U.S. state with a country, region, or large state in Latin America that shares some common characteristic and let the partners take it from there...
...same time, pilferage is a major problem. In the first nine months of 1964, more than $171 million in goods was lifted from tightly guarded Clark Field, including hundreds of bombs, some as large as 750 Ibs. Some of the weapons and ammo filter to remnants of the Communist Huk guerrilla forces holed up on Luzon. But mostly the Filipino operators sell the explosives to dynamite-fishermen (who package it in Coke bottles to kill fish in Manila Bay) and trade the empty cases on Manila's booming scrap-metal market. Pilferers have stolen airfield landing lights, miles...
...ductless hood for the stove, just introduced by Puritron, uses electronics to cope with the smoke and grease that all too rapidly foul the usual hood's charcoal filter. A tiny ion tube of gold alloy releases a stream of negative ions when the hood is turned on, promptly attacking the positive ions in the air, around which the molecules of smoke and cooking odor gather. This precipitates the molecules on an easily washed aluminum filter-releasing fresh, clean air again. In three sizes and colors...