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From the start, Congressman Vinson was keenly interested in national defense. His first speech in the House (in 1916) was a call for greater military preparedness, and he still fondly regards that as one of the best speeches he ever made. He early asked for and got a seat on...
Maytag is easily the most outspoken chief executive in the airlines industry. He is against airline mergers because he feels that they weaken competition, ardently protests the Government's tight regulation. "About the only thing left under the airlines' control," he says, "is schedules." He is equally critical...
A full-dress summit session of 81 Communist parties in Moscow in November 1960 produced a statement (adopted unanimously, of course) that merely lumped together these diametrically opposed opinions. Then last fall, the Red Chinese invasion of India only served to justify Khrushchev's view that Mao was a...
Pole vaulter Brian Sternberg, 20, always refused to take himself seriously. A sophomore at the University of Washington, Sternberg was genuinely surprised when he was invited to compete at the Penn Relays last April. "They paid $325 for my airplane ticket," he said, "and I don't know how...
Whatever the truth of Rauch's charges, the effect would have been to postpone the promised July 7 elections, which are supposed to restore civilian control of the country. Rauch's proposal failed because of the opposition from the liberal wing of the army, led by General Juan...