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From Thailand to Senegal. The largest of the Rome-based American firms Whiting Associates International, arrived on the scene ten years ago and has since participated in construction projects worth $750 million in 19 countries from Thailand to Senegal. Another U.S. firm, Robert S. McMillan Associates, has been in Rome only two years but already has won contracts for an 8,000-student university in Iran, a mosque in Tanzania and a series of military-training centers in Nigeria. The newest entry, McGaughy, Marshall, McMillan & Lucas, had specialized in overseas work for the U.S. armed forces for ten years before...
...worst offender, say Dr. Campbell W. McMillan and Dr. William R. Purcell in the New England Journal of Medicine, is the caterpillar that grows into one of the flannel moths, Megalopyge opercularis. Country folk use so many other names that they have confused the issue. In North Carolina it is usually the "woolly slug," in Texas it is often "woolly worm," and in between it may be the puss caterpillar, possum bug, or Italian asp. In Mexico it becomes el perrito, or little dog. By any name, it stings...
...amazingly paradoxical situation; the only city is the U.S. with a Negro majority is governed by Southern whites. "It's as if the U.N. had sent the South Africans to run the Congo," District officials say when they are sure no one is listening. It is these men--John McMillan of South Carolina (the chairman), Howard Smith of Virginia (the veterau of the Rules Committee), John Dowdy of Texas, George Huddleston of Alabama, Basil Whitener of North Carolina, John Bell Williams of Mississippi, and so on through a lengthy roster of Southerners, who year after year prevent the passage...
...minister, delivering a fireside chat, destroys his country's television network by sticking his finger through the camera. When the rocket is about to be launched, the Fenwickians interrupt the countdown at four for tea. And so on for an hour and a half. Terry-Thomas, Ron Moody, Roddy McMillan and half a dozen others help Miss Rutherford make Mouse on the Moon a delightful escape...
...past years, the McMillan Cup has been won by famous yachtsmen such as Bob Bavler, George O'Day and Bus Mosbacher...