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Across the U.S., most ban-the-bomb groups seemed simply dispirited. Thirty motorists in Boston turned on their headlights, followed a black station wagon filled with flowers through downtown Boston in a mock funeral staged by two women's peace groups. About 20 pickets huddled at Chicago's Congress and Michigan Avenues under a banner proclaiming: "Nuclear Tests Threaten Mankind." Admitted their leader: "It's awfully hard to keep up a sustained campaign." In Washington, Nobel Chemist Linus Pauling was among marchers outside the White House...
...fair has much, much more: the IBM building, with walls of living silver poplars, where kids must learn to think like computers to find their way out of a maze; NASA's floating, jewel-like weather satellites and full-size space-capsule mock-up (complete with a silver-suited astronaut); the Mexican Pavilion with walls of lava cubes and a startling, exquisitely crafted assemblage by Manuel Felguerez; a fashion pavilion where haughty Vogue models perch on concrete lily pads in a 5,000-gallon perfumed pool. But those who take even samplings at the fair's food spots...
...National Aeronautics and Space Administration has given ABC the first really detailed look at mock-ups of the new two-man Gemini capsule, the three-man Apollo capsule that will make the first U.S. moon trip and the nuclear Nerva rocket, so powerful that it will eliminate the rendezvous and docking process altogether and make direct trips beyond the moon...
...Kitchen? "We're surrounded," said the Chicago Tribune in mock despair. In Teddy's move, the Tribune thought it could sniff the course of U.S. politics for years to come: "President John F. (1961-69), President Robert F. (1969-77), President Edward F. (1977-), and before you know it we are in 1984, with Caroline coming up fast and John F. Jr. just behind her." New York Herald Tribune Columnist Roscoe Drummond, while noting in a graver vein that dynasties have never had much appeal for U.S. voters, added that "from the standpoint of future Presidential elections, there...
...Prudential Insurance Co., a 1,000-room hotel, a 5,800-seat auditorium, gardens, a skating rink and swimming pool. In Washington this week, NASA will unveil the master plan for its man-in-space research center outside Houston, a complex of 49 buildings, training fields and mock-up lunar landscapes for practice landings. Building begins in May, will finish by late...