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...listening," Nelson Rockefeller told his hosts. "What's wrong with listening? This is the first time a North American has ever come listening." The heads of state of the seven Central American countries, whom the New York Governor visited last week on the first leg of a 23-nation, four-stage mission for President Nixon, had plenty to tell...
...cycle: the polarity of the sunspot pairs reverses. Thus, if the leading spots of pairs are negative in the northern hemisphere during one eleven-year cycle, they are positive during the next. Even more remarkable, the overall solar magnetic field reverses near the peak of each cycle, the north and south magnetic poles trading places. This strange behavior may result from distortions in the magnetic fields caused by the sun's uneven rate of rotation; for still-unknown reasons, the equatorial regions rotate around the solar axis every 25 days, regions at higher latitudes every 33 days. This strange...
Anticipating the sort of problems that have plagued New Mexico, eleven of the 50 states have never joined the Medicaid program. At least four of them -Virginia, New Jersey, Tennessee and North Carolina-are fairly certain to, sign up by the Jan. 1, 1970 deadline; after that date, nonmembers stand to lose federal funds that support alternative programs for the medically indigent. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana and Mississippi are hoping that the deadline will be extended, but are not expected to join Medicaid before Jan. 1 in any case. Two states have special problems: Alaska, which would have to take...
Venerable and Vulnerable. Heineman, 55, is the self-assured attorney who took over the wheezing Chicago and North Western Railway in 1956 and surprised skeptical industry veterans by turning the company into a moneymaker. Only four years ago, he began spreading into steel, clothing and chemicals, and later formed Northwest Industries, a holding company. Its sales rose impressively from $260 million in 1965 to $701 million...
GREENSBORO, N.C.--One Black student was killed as snipers and police exchanged gunfire on the North Carolina A & T University campus last night. Dr. Lewis C. Dowdy, president of the university, ordered the school closed...