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...Administration originally expected a SALT go-ahead from Moscow by mid-August. That has not been forthcoming, perhaps because the Kremlin has had more pressing preoccupations with the Chinese border disturbances and the Czech invasion anniversary. One encouraging sign was a report last week that the Soviet Union will shortly join the U.S. in putting before the 25-nation Geneva disarmament conference a draft treaty limiting military uses of the ocean floor...
...NASA fully expects, no alarming symptoms develop in the astronauts, their attendants, or the test animals and plants in the adjoining lunar-sample laboratory, the three men of Apollo 11 will at last be allowed to emerge into the outside world in mid-August for a belated and well-deserved welcome...
...nationalizing Indian banks by paying them mere lip service in the vague closing resolution. But their real success came in defeating Indira on the party's choice of a candidate for the presidency, vacant since the death of Dr. Zakin Husain last May. (Elections are scheduled for mid-August...
...final week, the enameled confidence that had marked Nixon's staff from the first began to crack. In the final hours, it all but collapsed. From a virtually unassailable lead of 16 points over Hubert Humphrey in the mid-August Gallup poll, Nixon had declined to a scant two-point edge in both the Gallup and Harris surveys on the last week-end of the race. On Election Eve, Harris weighed in with a final poll that took into account the impact of the Viet Nam bombing pause proclaimed by Lyndon Johnson last week. In it-astonishingly-Humphrey...
...lanky Harvard graduate, Bayne had worked for almost a year in Maharashtra state in India, demonstrating new types of seed to farmers and helping them to fight rats. In the village he drank unboiled water. Bayne's first clue that something was amiss came in mid-August, when cigarettes "just didn't taste good." He quit smoking. A week later, he was nauseated and running a fever. The Peace Corps got him into Bombay's Breach Candy Hospital, where physicians at first thought that this was going to be a routine case. They reported: "Condition satisfactory...