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...Looking even farther into the future, Wisconsin's quixotic Democratic Senator William Proxmire named Defense Secretary Robert McNamara as "the leading choice right now for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968-although he apparently is not a Democrat." McNamara, former president of Ford Motor Co., joined the New Frontier as a registered Republican, but calls himself an independent. Proxmire did add that the Democrats will have lots of other attractive possibilities in '68, when Jack Kennedy will, under the Constitution, be disallowed from seeking a third term. Among Proxmire's nominations: Attorney General Robert Kennedy and Massachusetts...
...Gilbert Co., whose long-beloved Erector Set has been updated to include rocket gantries and moon vehicles, has a flying model plane, the Skyflash. Its gasoline motor has a new type of silencer to reduce the hornet's-nest buzz, and its wings and fuselage are made of high-impact plastic, which is strong, flexible and shatterproof...
...dreary Dagenham mud flats east of London, has what may well be the world's worst labor record: it has been hit by crippling wildcat strikes at the chilling rate of more than one a week for the past five years. "The American owners of this mammoth motor concern," editorialized the usually pro-labor Mirror, "would be justified in writing Britain off as a base for their factories." At Dagenham. irresponsible union shop stewards-some of them Communists-ignore appeals for moderation from national union leaders, and march their men off the job for grievances that...
...spring." Then the legislature passed the law last spring, it left adoption and enforcement up to the individual communities. unless the City adopts the anti-jay-walking measure, Rudolph says, the Commonwealth will deny Cambridge's legal to enforce certain kinds of new traffic laws. This would apply to motor vehicle or pedestrian rulings at any new traffic light the city installs, or at any traffic light system now operating which underrgoes repair of revision...
With only 4,700,000 motor vehicles in a nation that covers one-seventh of the earth's surface, the Soviet Union would hardly be expected to worry much about traffic jams. Yet Russia has a growing problem, for almost all the cars and trucks are concentrated in the larger cities or on the few major roads between them. Especially congested at peak hours are some of the main streets of Moscow, where dump trucks and haulers vie at a snail's pace with taxis to get from one distant suburb to another. Last week a brand...