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...when both road space and parking space are at a premium, the 6-ft.-4-in.-long Cubicar is a fascinating concept. With a top speed of 55 m.p.h., it gets about 24 miles to the gallon. It can seat five adults in comfort. And it can park, headon, where even a Volkswagen would fear to tread...
Criticism and caution about heart transplants have been welling up for weeks. So, as Capetown Surgeon Christiaan N. Barnard began his second U.S. tour, he tackled the issue headon. Barnard chose the title "Was Human Cardiac Transplantation Premature?" for his presentation to the American College of Cardiology in San Francisco. Emphatically, he said that...
Lyndon Johnson met these vagaries headon, but the outcome of the collision cannot be known for months. He proposed for the year beginning July 1, $186.1 billion in "outlays"-a term covering expenditures and net lending under the new budget format-but this and other projections rested on expectations of a degree of cooperation from Congress that will most probably be withheld and of only a modest rise in Viet Nam expenses, which are really impossible to predict...
...L.B.J.'s conduct of the Viet Nam war. Calling labor "neither hawk nor dove nor chick en," Meany declared: "We recognize the fact that our country has a commitment, a job to do. We support the President of the United States." Paul Hall of the Seafarers Union sailed headon into J. William Fulbright. "If the Senator from Arkansas," Hall growled, "would do just 10% for the Arkansas Negro as he has said or bled for the Viet Cong, not only would Arkansas be a hell of a lot better state, but this would be a better country." Conventioneers could...
There will be more, of course. And now Lyndon Johnson seemed in a mood to meet them headon. As he entered his fifth year as President, it was plain that the time of defensive silence was over, and that he was once more taking the stance of leadership...