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...Anderson won approval for his station, which will beam its signal directly along the highway, by arguing that his listeners form a "mobile community" with common needs. Not all of them are wagerers, however. Seems that fully 25% of the 23 million people who drive the route each year peel off into the Mojave Desert just to spend a few days nowhere...
...Vermont. "You never hear about how the researchers lost some of the sampling bottles in the ocean, or how sick they were at the rail." Arndt Braaten, 19, a junior at Luther College, discovered during spectro-photometric analysis in West-ward's lab that tiny particles of iron peel away from the ship's hull and form measurable concentrations in water samples taken within a few feet of the ship, a possible source of error in chemical analyses of sea water. Braaten hopes to publish his findings in a scientific journal. Says...
...Peter H. Peel...
...said, the previous two years had been "among the most difficult in the U.S.-Japanese relationship since the end of World War II." In Washington, even Congress's Joint Economic Committee stopped growling. Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, committee chairman, conceded that Japan, under U.S. pressure, had "begun to peel away" the cocoon of import regulations it had spun to protect its domestic industry from foreign competition...
...tend to be optimistic in my outlook. I believe in Norman Peel's power of positive thinking, and so maybe I could be accused of being too optimistic. I think that we will show the world a very fine system of plural government in this part of the world...