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...orbital exploit claimed by the Soviet Union for its Major "Gaga"' Gagarin, then the Cuba debacle, and then retreat in strategic Southeast Asia. For Jack Kennedy, his New Frontier image badly tarnished by cold war defeats, Freedom 7 represented a daring and dangerous gamble. He had given the go-ahead for the man-shoot not to be made in such secrecy as to cast doubt on the actual accomplishment (as in the case of Russia's Gagarin), but with the whole world watching...
...reminder that Menderes, though currently on trial for his life, and his Democratic Party, though officially banned, still have a following. Gursel's junta, after nine months in power and nearly as many months of hesitation, recently gave all political parties except Communists and Menderes' Democrats the go-ahead to operate freely once again. Eleven new parties materialized, including one made up wholly of army officers forcibly retired by the junta. The scramble for the Democrats' onetime 4,500,000 votes...
...following: increase the number of planes on ground and air alert; begin the countdown on ICBM's; send decision makers to protected battle stations; verify communication channels; ground all commercial traffic, send some bombers off towards targets but give them orders to return they received coded "go-ahead" confirmation; initiate local counterforce operations which in Kahn's general usage of the might mean sending people to shelters and evacuating them; or finally initiate negotiations with the Russians designed to show them that (1) their attack, if it came, would be ineffective, and (2) we might strike the them unless they...
Thomson also announced an impending expansion of his beachhead in Africa, where he recently bought a half interest in a Nigerian newspaper chain. Provided he gets a go-ahead from Emperor Haile Selassie ("who seemed very responsive"), Thomson intends to establish an Ethiopian news agency and two Ethiopian dailies-one in English and one in Amharic. And in partnership with the youthful Aga Khan, he is laying plans for five new papers in Uganda, Kenya and Tanganyika...
...apple-pie order' and as it should be. "The road is also growth-minded; last year the Interstate Commerce Commission approved a merger between the N. & W. and the Virginian, the first merger of two independently owned railroads in this century. Last week the road's go-ahead President Stuart T. Saunders announced a new merger plan to put together a railroad giant that could be the nation's most profitable transportation complex...