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...government in Lagos may spend 43 per cent of the national income on education; the government in New Delhi knows that it dare not do so, although India is 85 per cent illiterate, for the Indian who receives a smattering of learning immediately considers himself too good for manual labor of any kind...
...first spaceman will be anything but a free soul. Swathed like a mummy in a cumbersome, confining space suit and strapped firmly to a couch, he will be able to perform only the simplest of manual tasks during his tour around the earth. His real job: to act as a human guinea pig for astrophysiologists, supply information on human behavior in the alien environment of space. Says Martin Co.'s Robert Demoret: "The important thing is to determine whether he can function effective, ly once he is up there. And that can only be done with any certainty...
...meeting of the street-fighting Committee in Honor of the Cuban Revolution, and flushed the Cuban embassy's second secretary. Argentine agents have been able on two occasions to intercept and photograph the bags of Havana's diplomatic couriers. Both times they found copies of the celebrated manual for guerrilla warfare written by Castro Henchman Che Guevara. On at least one occasion they found orders for Peronista terrorists...
Died. J. Edward King, 56, longtime general manager of TIME Inc.'s subscription service division in Chicago and a vice president of the parent corporation since 1954, who in 1946 helped supervise the first changeover from manual to mechanical subscription handling in the publishing field and the development of subsequent electronic speedups in tabulation and mailing operations covering 11 million subscribers; of a heart attack; in Hinsdale...
...resist it, [Europe] must look to its own weaknesses and its own form of spiritual flabbiness. Now you are catching up with us! All Europe is drunk with the same poison!" Up stepped Gamesman Potter to tweak Uncle Sam's nose amidst general merriment. He quoted from a manual for U.S. cemetery-plot salesmen: "It's better to have a plot and no need for it than to need it and not have one." He sneered at a claim of California winegrowers that they have never had a poor vintage year. He declaimed: "The selling...