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...Governor Rockefeller, still the only announced major G.O.P. candidate, finally put together the nucleus of a national organization. He corralled more than a dozen regional coordinators-including Washington State's Mort Frayn, onetime aide to Richard Nixon, and Maine Congressman Stanley Tupper. Charles Moore Jr., retired Ford Motor Co. vice-president for public relations, moved into New York to supervise Rockefeller press and communications operations. A high-powered California public relations firm (Spencer-Roberts & Associates) was try- ing to enhance Rocky's image on the West Coast...
Explorer-scientists still use dog sleds frequently in terrain too rough for tractors or motor toboggans. New Zealand dog handlers have not only evolved a special breed of husky to withstand the world's crudest climate, but have even developed a new "language" that the dogs understand better than the "Mush!" used by old Yukon hands: to start the team, the handler cries "Wheet...
...shirt or a woman's blouse. Another wire leads back from the power pack, down the arm, to the artificial hand. Inside this hand are "the works": an amplifier to magnify the body's muscle currents about 20,000 times, a storage cell, an electric motor and some gears...
...claims to be carrying out a plan to spend more than $1 billion on universities by 1965, but the skimpy results are visible mainly as some additions to provincial universities. Critics call broad-beamed Christian Fouchet, the 15th Education Minister in ten years, "the aircraft carrier with the outboard motor"-meaning that he has insufficient authority. Socialist Deputy Charles Privat recently protested that France is preparing "an embittered youth, 50% of which will have no choice but that of unskilled labor or of being unemployed...
...entrance. Prosperous Filipino business men, like the U.S. robber barons of the 1890s, build ornate homes in Manila's luxurious suburb of Forbes Park, where special police with carbines guard the streets against tough intruders from the slums. Bandits roam the back country, and pirates aboard motor launches raid docks and fishing boats...