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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harry Golden (287 pp.; World; $5). Harry (Only in America) Golden has put together an undefinitive biography of his old friend the poet out of snips and snatches from Sandburg's autobiography, newspaper columns, poetry and memorabilia. But there are some nuggets in this worked-over lode. Item: Sandburg was briefly considered by important Republicans as a dark-horse Republican candidate for the presidency in 1940 (Willkie was nominated, and the relieved Sandburg stumped the country for Roosevelt). Item: Poet-Patriarchs Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg are barely on speaking terms. Item : one of Sandburg's most widely...
Simple, compact and rugged, the Minuteman is 54 ft. tall, weighs 60,000 Ibs., which makes it about half the size of the Titan II. Liquid-fueled missiles are largely crafted by hand, but Boeing, prime contractor for the Minuteman, will treat the weapon much like a production-line item. Says Boeing's Chief Engineer Ernest ("Tex") Boullioun: "It will take us a year to install the first 150 in their silos, nine months for the next 150, six months for the next 150, and after that we expect to put 150 in every three months...
...First item was the U.S.-inspired proposal that held that any change in China's representation was an "important question" requiring a two-thirds vote for action. To get this proposal accepted required only a simple majority. It got far more than that, carrying by 61 to 34. Next came an amendment by Cambodia, Ceylon and Indonesia, which in effect urged the admission to the U.N. of two Chinas-the Red mainland and Nationalist Formosa. It was voted down 45-30, with 28 abstentions...
...market this year is also loaded with gifts for those who are on the make for the unusual. Neiman's, whose glamour item last year was His and Her airplanes, this year is featuring an ermine bathrobe ($6,975), and Manhattan Jeweler Harry Winston has a nice diamond and emerald necklace for $275,000. An Albuquerque blood bank is selling a $5 gift certificate that is good for all the emergency transfusions a family might need in a year. Abercrombie & Fitch has a beer-can launcher ($24.95) for men who like to combine their shooting with their drinking...
...morning Sentinel (circ. 196,961), put on so much heft, circulation and new advertising that it was compelled to give many a Journal striker work. For a while, the Journal even had to borrow page mats from the Sentinel (including one theater listing that ended with the embarrassing filler item: "Sentinel Want Ads Bring Results"). Journal circulation dropped...