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...festivals. But one noon last week civil war broke in the administrative capital of Vientiane, the City of Sandalwood. Tanks rolled through the streets firing in all directions. Mortar shells thudded down on hotels, embassies and shops. At a temple, 100 monks in saffron robes fluttered about like a flock of birds, seeking shelter behind big stone images of Buddha...
...Rome?" ¶It is in the early days of the Kennedy Administration. All is quiet in the subterranean war room of U.S. Defense Headquarters. Suddenly a light flashes on the desk of the top general on duty. He checks quickly, discovers that the Russians have just unleashed a flock of atomic missiles against the U.S. Instantly, the general grabs his "hot phone'' to the White House, snaps: "Mr. President! . . . Oh-well, get the President right away . . . Yes, but it's urgent! ... I said-What? . . . Oh, that's very nice-I mean-PLEASE! Get me the President...
...biggest drains on U.S. gold -more than all the money spent by military dependents-is the flood of tourists who flock to Europe each year and leave behind them some $600 million. One way to get the gold back is to lure European tourists to the U.S. Two years ago President Eisenhower named 1960 as "Visit U.S.A. Year" and promised potential travelers that "all of us here will do everything in our power to make your visit pleasant and memorable...
...dozen newsmen regularly covering the Congo, none has given his competitors more trouble than affable Wilfred Lazarus, 35, correspondent for the Press Trust of India. In a land where rumors flock like jungle fowl, communications are primitive and authorities both unreliable and distressingly perishable, Willie Lazarus regularly managed to uncover stories so breathtaking as to bring reporters for British and American wire services reproachful "callbacks" from their home offices...
After the first tests were completed, all the chickens were put in a single flock and kept together until they were ten weeks old. When they were cooped again in the togetherness tester, they all behaved pretty much alike toward the stimulus chicken on the other side of the wire. Baron and Kish conclude that chicks raised in isolation feel little attraction for their own kind, but after they have flocked together for six weeks, they learn to be as sociable as other chickens. Chickens are not much like humans, but Baron and Kish believe that their chicken study should...