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They were right. Gravity and damping devices on the GGTS launched in June have already reduced the arc of its swing from a full 180° to about 30°. By mid-August, its builders hope, the oscillations will have died down to less than 8°, leaving the satellite with one face turned toward the earth...
...thriving U.S. economy, now in its 54th consecutive month of advance, is creating new jobs faster than automation is eliminating old ones. In mid-August, the Labor Department reported last week, the number of Americans on nonagricultural payrolls reached an all-time high of 61.1 million, 334,000 more than in July. During the same period, total unemployment dropped by 350,-000 to 3,300,000, although the jobless rate remained at July's 4.5% - an eight-year low - because of a temporary decrease in the work force...
...short week starting Sept. 6. The Transport Ministry postponed for six months about half of the $140 million in road building that was to have started shortly. Most telltale of all, unemployment leaped by 58,333−a startling 20%−in the four weeks from mid-July to mid-August (it is still a relatively low 1.7% of the work force...
This week Lodge was scheduled to make an inspection trip to South Viet Nam with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara; he will not take over the embassy formally until mid-August. When he does, he will find that things have changed since his first tour of duty. When he left Saigon on June 29, 1964, Major General Nguyen Khanh was Premier; since then, there have been six changes of government, and the current incumbent is Air Commodore Nguyen Cao Ky, whom Lodge has never met. Moreover, at the time of Lodge's 1964 leavetaking, there were 16,000 U.S. servicemen...
Defense Secretary McNamara sounded like a proud father. "I have," he told newsmen, "today authorized the Army to organize a new division, the Air-mobile Division." To be organized at Fort Benning, Ga., the new 16,000-man outfit will be ready for action by mid-August. Said McNamara: "It places the Army on the threshold of an entirely new approach to the conduct of land battle...