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...federal desegregation drive is heading over the hump, it is largely because Washington has the states over the barrel. Last year the South received more than $506 million in federal education subsidies, chiefly for lunches, laboratory equipment and research projects, and this year is no time to opt out. With President Johnson counting on vastly increasing the Washington aid and concentrating it on poverty-impacted districts, Alabama's share would double, the Carolinas' triple. Alabama's George Wallace is suddenly silent on the subject of federal intervention, which could bring Alabama $35 million just...
...exports to the West pass through the canal; such South American nations as Ecuador, Peru and Chile depend on it for between 75% and 90% of their total imports and exports. But ships have slowly outgrown the intricate network of three lock systems that carry them across the hump of the isthmus, and trade is expanding far beyond the canal's capacity to handle it. Over the last ten years, commercial traffic has climbed from 36 million tons annually to almost 65 million tons. Today, some ships lie to for 15 hours or more awaiting their turn. The biggest...
...mechanical problems, hopes that the advantages of front wheel drive will more than pay for its added cost Because front wheel power eliminates the need for a long drive shaft and a rear-axle differential, the Holiday will have a flat, low floor without a center tunnel or differential hump, more room tor passengers and luggage. Front-wheel traction and more weight at the front will make the car more stable on windy days and on icy roads. Perhaps even more important to Oldsmobile, the novelty of its new car should draw many additional prospects into Oldsmobile showrooms, where they...
...complacent as the liberal. "This country is full of the wrong kind of conservative," he charged. "They're country-club types willing to turn their sons over to the local institution for nine months of the year and to put up with Santa Claus Johnson and Hubert the Hump...
...like those used in contraceptives such as Enovid, for women aged roughly from 40 to 50. What about those who live much longer? They are no longer in hormonal imbalance, he replied, but many of them suffer from hormonal deficiency states. These produce such symptoms as "dowager's hump," excessive wrinkles, and osteoporosis (brittle bones). "If a woman has these symptoms," Dr. Kistner declared, "she should get estrogens, not every day, but in cycles. Or on the off chance that these might encourage cancer, she could have combinations, such as Enovid...