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...last year that United Press International made money, Lyndon Johnson was in the White House and the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night was climbing the 1964 record charts. Last week brought more bad news for the second largest U.S. wire service, which emerged from bankruptcy proceedings last June when it was bought by Mexican Newspaper Publisher Mario Vazquez Rana. The New York Times revealed that on Dec. 31 it would cancel its basic contract with U.P.I. (The Times still wants to use the wire's photo service.) Estimated cost of the dropped service: close to $1 million a year...
...Arizona's largest dry-goods merchandiser, young Barry started out in the family business. In 1949 he was so disgusted with the corrupt city government in Phoenix that he ran for city council. Three years later he was elected to the Senate on Dwight Eisenhower's coattails. But he never would be, as he put it, a "me-too Republican." Goldwater summed up his views in The Conscience of a Conservative (1960): "My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence...
...told how an Israeli research team, starting in 1964 with a 26-megawatt nuclear reactor supplied by France, secretly upgraded it to 150 megawatts, large enough to produce plutonium for ten nuclear bombs a year. In the process, said the article, they turned Israel into the world's sixth largest nuclear power, after the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain, France and China...
...need to allocate 10 billion dollars. It would be allocated to grass roots groups close to the neighborhoods which have the largest number of illiterates," he said. "These would be truly based in the communities with the communities in control of the governance...
Some students say that need is highlighted by the virtual breakup last year of the Third World Student Alliance (TWSA), a loosely formed umbrella group of Harvard's largest minority groups. The breakup was precipitated by internal disagreement about a TWSA report published last semester...