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Naturally, there were all kinds of bugs along the way. While assembling the new installation, the technicians learned that two vital parts- magnetic storage elements-were missing. Striker found that they would have to be specially manufactured, ordered them and, fortnight ago, with the two missing links in his hand luggage, flew out of New York for Saigon. Last week, as the new circuit went to work, copy from our Saigon bureau moved to New York in a matter of minutes. Formerly it took as long as twelve hours...
Back home to Peking last week, well ahead of schedule, flew Red China's Premier Chou Enlai. His original intention, after a "friendly visit" fortnight ago with Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere, had been to spend three weeks visiting other African leaders, ending his tour with a final appearance at the Afro-Asian Conference of nonaligned nations on June 29 in Algiers. Then, at a rally in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania's capital, he declared that "an exceedingly favorable situation for revolution prevails not only in Africa, but also in Asia and Latin America...
...Scotland's Jim Clark, 29, lets on, the Indy 500 is a bit of a bore. Fortnight before the race, while everybody else was practicing furiously, he flew home to inspect the livestock on his 1,200-acre Lowlands farm. When he returned, he allowed as how, "frankly speaking, I'd rather be in Monte Carlo"-where his European comrades were competing the same weekend in the Grand Prix of Monaco.* Still, his boss, Colin Chapman, had signed up for the race, and Clark reckoned he might as well make the most of t. So he did. Squirming...
Toll: between $300 and $600 million in property damage, including 50,000 cattle and 5,000,000 homes. More than 12,000 Pakistanis were dead, mostly drowned. It was the worst season since 1960, when two storms a fortnight apart killed 16,000, though it was small compared to the disaster of 1876, when 100,000 drowned in 30 minutes...
Manhattan Art Dealer Leo Castelli is one of the biggest boosters of pop art. As if to confound critics who are proclaiming that the boom is already a bust, Castelli in the past fortnight has managed to sell the world's largest pop painting, by James Rosenquist, and exhibited the world's noisiest contempo rary sculpture, by Robert Rauschenberg. What do the two have to do with each other? To hear the artists tell it, both are simply expressions of today's urban landscape...