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...likeliest new source is an estimated 500,000 youths in the 1-Y category who have failed to pass preinduction mental tests. Not only to meet draft needs, but also in line with Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's plans announced last August to "salvage" draft rejects from poor backgrounds, intelligence standards have been lowered three times in the past year-eliminating, among other requirements, that of a high school education. Under the latest reduction, ordered last month, a man can score as low as 10 on his armed forces qualification test (perfect score: 100) and still be inducted...
Possibly in the interests of international decorum, the government did not specify charges, but every Lebanese trader could itemize the likeliest opportunities for a safqa (deal) in the foreign service: peddling diplomatic codes and official reports, for example, or trading in black-market currencies. One confidential dispatch recently turned up in a Cairo newspaper before it reached the foreign office in Beirut...
...President-who last week added yet another worthy program to the package by signing the Arts and Humanities bill in the Rose Garden of the White House-might well have wondered why this was so. The likeliest answer is that life in the prosperous U.S. of 1965 seems vastly better to most Americans than the flawed society often pictured by Lyndon Johnson in support of his legislative program. At times during the 1964 campaign-and even since-L.B.J. sounded as if he had been handed an old F.D.R. speech by mistake: People were hungry, old folk homeless, farms drying...
...Peter Kiewit Sons' Co., estimated that it would pay more than $1,000,000 in benefits to survivors. Pending its month-long investigation, the Air Force suspended similar work on other Titan II sites. What caused the disaster, worst in U.S. missile history, was officially a mystery. The likeliest theory is that a diesel generator had somehow switched on in the third level, throwing a spark into the volatile atmosphere where pipe fitters were working on the hydraulic system. Thus the Titan II, deadliest and most dependable missile in the U.S. arsenal, accidentally claimed its first victims...
...tiger skins," wrote a Polish poet in praise of the Congo rebellion. In fact, Red witchcraft is doing poorly in Africa. The only African country under outright Communist domination is the former colony of Congo-Brazzaville. Through hamhanded diplomacy and sloppy technology, the Russians alienated two of their likeliest converts, Guinea's Sekou Toure and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah. China, usually more subtle in its subversive techniques, has also managed to stomp on African toes. Peking's men in Burundi were thrown out early this year after a Chinese subversion campaign that was climaxed by the assassination...