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...America beamed the speech live over its entire network, followed up with two rebroadcasts and a series of explanatory newscasts. Films and video tapes of the speech were flown to 101 nations. Last week USIA posts abroad were analyzing foreign reaction to Kennedy's speech and reporting it milder than even the bland and brief censure directed against the Soviet Union for breaking the test ban moratorium last year...
...that there is no consistent difference be tween cases of flu caused by A and B viruses. Only in the laboratory can the offending particles be identified, by minute differences in the antibodies they provoke. But broad patterns appear. Type B is generally reported to be causing a milder than average illness, usually with four days of fever and malaise and four more days needed for recovery...
...There have been four U.S. recessions in less than 15 years: no other advanced country has had so many. Moreover, although they have generally been milder than prewar downturns they have by no means been insignificant: they have certainly been more serious than any experienced in Western Europe since the war." Thus, in the current issue of London's Westminster Bank Review, British Economist Christopher W. McMahon, 34, enters upon "a longish look backwards and forwards" at the U.S. economy-and his foreign view proves that in economics as in a fast-moving football game, things often look different...
...Organic Democracy." Political repressions, which had been both harsh and frequent at the end of the civil war (an estimated 100,000 enemies of Franco were shot), slowly became less frequent, milder, even playful. Criticizing Franco has become an intellectual exercise of the bored rich and their spoiled sons. On the rare occasions when they are jailed, they are treated like gentlemen, eventually released with sentence delayed-but revivable if they create new difficulties for the regime. Under such a mild eye, almost everyone now feels brave enough to brag quietly that he really hates Franco ("but there...
...termites are on the move and gaining on man. Last year the wood-eating insects destroyed $250 million worth of U.S. property, more than the national loss from arson, tornadoes and lightning-and more than twice the damage the bugs did only a decade ago. Furthermore, encouraged by milder winters, termites are pushing steadily north, reports Dr. Thomas Elliott Snyder, 76, research associate of the Smithsonian Institution...