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Just as sure as Washington's cherry trees produce cherry blossoms, the Kennedy Administration was bound to be embarrassed by a first flap. The wonder was that the flap came so soon and exploded out of such a well-marked booby trap. The misfortune was that it involved a basic problem of national defense: the world view of the relative missile strength of the U.S. and the Soviet Union...
Night Light. Inspired by Ole Miss, the whole state vibrates in a constant football flap. No high school would think of scheduling a game for the time that Vaught's team is playing; anyone who cannot get over to Oxford for the Ole Miss game listens to it over his radio. But every Friday night the state is set aglow from the Gulf to the Tennessee border by the lights of high school games. Towns too poor to have a Confederate memorial are too proud not to have a football field. Says Ole Miss Line Coach Frank ("Bruiser") Kinard...
...damage involved in cutting into the circle and to protect the aneurysm patient from further attacks of increasing severity, Tufts University's Dr. Bertram Selverstone has devised a daring and ingenious technique. First, Dr. Selverstone opens the way to the Circle of Willis by taking out a big flap of bone from the skull. (An arteriogram-an X ray of the brain's blood vessels involving the injection of radio-opaque dye into the patient-will have already spotted the site of the aneurysm.) Then, using an artist's airbrush, Selverstone sprays the aneurysm with a mixture...
...company, saw Harris wobbling his oil painting on a TV show, told his father about the "man making a whooping sound with a piece of Masonite." The Masonite people enlisted Harris in a promotion stunt, turned out 200 boards as giveaways. "We never dreamed what a mad flap was in store for us," says Sales Promotion Manager Bob Jones. Demand was so great that the company began selling the boards, had to hire extra hands for the increased production. In all, more than 55,000 boards have been sold in Australia...
...result was the recent Nixon-Kennedy flap over who should pay air fares for 250 U.S.-bound East African students. A more useful result was the Government's post-independence offer of scholarships for 150 Guinea students and 300 from the Congo...