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What results is a partial-and unsatisfactory-sketch of the 1964 debacle. Goldwater did not lead his campaign because he never really felt a deep personal desire to become President. "He agreed to run," Shaddeg lamely states, 'because there was nothing else he could...
...uncorny Deborah Bryant, 19, a brown-haired beauty who would look at home on the fashion pages of Town and Country. Eight pounds lighter (115) and one inch taller (5 ft. 7 in.) than the average pageant winner, Debbie filled the tape with figures that made the judges partial...
...Reading makes use of equipment that has been on the market for a few years: computerized type-fitting, phototypesetting and offset printing. But never before has it all been assembled in one newspaper printing plant. In the U.S., the cost of such automation has inhibited most publishers, and even partial automation is often bucked by printers and others fearful of losing jobs. In Britain, publishers and printers have generally managed to work out agreements for splitting savings from automation, and printing jobs are eliminated only through attrition...
...Even partial disarmament is a remote prospect. However, thanks to advances in weaponry and more efficient management, defense spending, which in the past decade provided the wages for one in every twelve workers, leveled off last year and thus actually declined in relation to the nation's rising G.N.P. The economy is sufficiently resilient to cope with much sharper cuts in the military budget, by increased federal spending for civilian purposes, by tax reductions or, most likely, by a combination of both...
...best they could achieve was partial success, and it probably would have come even without them. The trouble lay mainly with the British, who ignored their carefully documented reports on Turkish military dispositions, kept Singer waiting in anterooms for three helpless years. Not until his desperate agents managed to hand over the Turkish army code did the British take them seriously, and by that time the invasion had already been planned. When Palestine finally fell to the British, most of the ring's principal members were dead and the Jewish communities decimated. And as Singer had predicted, the survivors...