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...their performance will justify their cost and weight. Still other tests are merely experiments in nuclear physics. The device tested may be useless as a weapon, but scientists hope that its explosion will yield information about the behavior of atoms and subatomic particles which they cannot obtain in any other way. These far-out tests may be the most important of all because they lead to long-range progress...
Citizenship does not automatically mean the right to vote. Like even the homeland Portuguese, Africans must first pass a literacy test and prove they have paid an annual tax of at least $7. Few can meet these requirements. But they will obtain, for the first time, the rights to judicial trial and the full protection of the law. The government removed some of the bloom from this offer by adding that Angola and the other African territories will receive greatly increased immigration from Portugal, including "the young men now doing their military service there." In short, the Portuguese solution...
...Kremlin, which has been well aware of the day-to-day spine stiffening in Washington. The U.S. note agreed with the Soviet contention that "a peace settlement is long overdue," but wasted no words putting the blame for delay where it properly belonged: on continuing "Soviet efforts to obtain special advantages for itself and the Soviet bloc at the expense of a lasting peace...
Untarred Candidate. Even so, after four days, Senator Puyat still could not obtain the vital 60% of the vote. Convention costs, which included hotel expenses for the 1,344 delegates, were soaring and tempers grew short. President Garcia phoned the convention chairman, snapped, "We can't go on forever." Under heavy pressure, Aytona finally agreed to let the Nacionalista Executive Committee pick the Vice President. The committee promptly passed the buck to President Garcia. Handing the nomination to Puyat as the choice "of the majority of the delegates," Garcia delicately thanked the convention for a "new affirmation of your...
...have been President Kennedy's proposal for a Peace Corps, which met an immediately favorable response. Before the Federal project started, PBH announced "Project Tanganyika" to train students in Swahili and permit them to teach for a summer. Eastern Nigeria officials talked with Dean Monro, in an effort to obtain teachers. The popularity of the Corps scheme was manifested first in a poll circulated among 1961 members, and secondly by the number of students planning to visit Africa...