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Guns v. Butter. Many Americans worried impatiently that the Administration was imperiling G.I. lives by allowing Hanoi to funnel arms and men into the South over bridges, roads and jungle trails exempt from air interdiction. On the other hand, the pause had fomented increasingly vociferous assaults on the President's policy in Viet Nam, largely from within his own party. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, challenged the very legality of U.S. involvement in the war. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield urged that the bombing be suspended "indefinitely." Nearly half of the Senate's Democrats...
Yugoslav Geologist Bozidar Djordjevitch had an ingenious idea. Every spring, he said, water from melting snow pours into Yugoslavia's Karst caves, compressing air that whistles out through vents in the earth's surface. Why not seal the caves and funnel the escaping air to gas turbines, which could convert it into useful energy? Djordjevitch soon had an answer: the caves are vented in too many places; they are almost impossible to seal...
Keppel doubled the size of the school's faculty, pioneered in bringing outside professors into the education faculty to break the hold of the educationists. He organized a cooperative program with 30 of the top liberal-arts colleges in the U.S. to funnel some of their most talented graduates into professional education via Harvard's graduate school. After Keppel moved on in 1962 to become U.S. Commissioner of Education, another brilliant young innovator, Theodore Sizer, now 33, succeeded him as dean, and continued the push toward making education a major concern of all of Harvard's academic...
...well have been the 1st Air Cav's threatened interdiction of the enemy's manpower pipeline that produced the unprecedented ferocity of Communist attacks last week. For Chu Pong is clearly a central enemy enclave and funnel point into South Viet Nam. On the Cambodian side, the hills slope gently, allowing easy access for the supplies and men arriving from the North. To the east, the la Drang River provides easy transport and a natural gateway to Viet Nam's central highlands-whose takeover some U.S. intelligence experts believe to be the goal of Hanoi...
Wide Gap. Controlling the two prestigious branches of Hong Kong and Singapore, the Communists have used their footholds to good advantage. Through these banks they funnel funds to such Communist organizations as the New China News Agency, bring back to Red China an estimated $132 million each year in hard currency remitted by overseas Chinese to mainland relatives. The bank's London office is now handling transactions amounting to $52 million in pounds sterling, which Japan is paying for recent purchases of Chinese corn, rice and soybeans. Communist branches also give generous loans to importers who handle Chinese goods...