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...four large tires -which is just what it is. It is also the smartest thing on wheels to a growing corps of Coot fanciers. They drive it through mud, up mountains, across lakes and into woods, all the places conventional vehicles cannot roll. They use it to hunt, fish, mend fences, find stranded sheep and haul fertilizer. The vehicle is also put into service by federal forest rangers and by a dozen law enforcement agencies for search and rescue operations in rocky country...
...report makes some of its most important proposals in the section on University-Community relations. With sharper focus than the Wilson Committee, the report urges the University to reconsider the "morality" of its hiring, real estate, and investment policies. That reconsideration is over-due. While trying to mend its internal racial problems, Harvard should also see what its investment and hiring policies can do to help racial equality outside its walls...
Indonesia's new leaders did their best to mend the ruptured relationships caused by Sukarno's irrationalities. They also tried hard to persuade Singapore not to carry out the executions of the marines. The Singapore government, however, stuck to its decision, pointing out that the act of sabotage had resulted in the deaths of three persons. And so, in a cold, misty dawn at Singapore's Changi Prison last month, the two were hanged...
...NIXON ORGANIZATION had done its best to mend the busted local fences left in the wake of the Miami convention. A pre-speech press release lauded Massachusetts' great and progressive colleges, with their concerned and alienated students. Painfully aware that the Nixon-Agnew "law and order" appeal wasn't going over so well in Massachusetts, party bosses had imported four Negroes, complete with frisbie-sized "Nixon's The One" buttons, to sit in the audience. On the stage, Senator Edward Brooke and black Congressional candidate Allen Freeman added a liberal touch...
...verse far different from his customary classical approach. He then forgot about it. But composer-friend John Benson Brooks thought it such a hummer he recently put it to music. Now Decca has included it in an album called A vant Slant, due out next month. Sample lyrics from Mend Them Fences...