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...grumbles: ''They won't buy German vegetables any more, even when they're cheaper." Looking toward outer space, Britain, France and West Germany are establishing a $200 million project to build a European rocket. Deep beneath the Alps, workmen are blasting an auto tunnel under Mont Blanc; when it is completed next year, Paris and Rome will be 124 miles closer...
...Raynesford, Mont. (pop. 62), a cowboy can saunter out of the Mint Bar, ride two miles over rolling, dun-colored country, and watch hard-hatted construction workers pouring concrete around a Minuteman launch silo 89 feet deep. North of Little Rock, Ark., where the Ouachita Mountains slope toward the Mississippi, motorists on U.S. Route 67 can see trailers, cars and cranes clustered around huge wounds that have been gouged in the earth for Titan II missiles. Flying south on Western Airlines Flight 51 near Cheyenne, Wyo., passengers can look down and see the jeweled galaxy of lights around an Atlas...
...advertising director will be Robert C. Gordon, who is now assistant publisher. Bob Gordon was born in Hingham, Mont. (pop. 254), 45 years ago, attended public schools in Minnesota and California, studied at the Sorbonne and the University of Munich. He is an amateur musician (piano and voice) and an even more amateur golfer...
Wandering about town for a week before his broadcast, Sahl ritually shopped for his daily toy (a $25 Mont Blanc pen, a $5,000 E-type Jaguar), once went out at 3 a.m. into the grey vacuum of the London night just to have a look at the outsized eagle atop the new U.S. embassy in Grosvenor Square. Then, taping his show before an audience full of political rebels and comedians (Lord Boothby, Peter Sellers), Sahl warmed them up with a note on his visit to the House of Commons ("I thought the debates were a little mannered...
...well as during everyday dial twirling, is pure Venusian. but the hams call it "Q" signals. Examples: QXR for "stand by for a minute"; QTH for "where do you live?" Curiously enough, this kind of talk can bring romance. Typical is the case of Florence Majerus of Lewistown, Mont., who set up the first QSO (direct communication) between a YL (young lady) friend. Jean Bustard, and Max Stout, a radio officer in the merchant marine. Transmission was FB (fine business), and each was soon signing off with 88 (love and kisses). Eventually he proposed, and Jean became his XYL (wife...