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Also still at issue, but less of a potential sticking point, is the question of just what powers a proposed four-nation, 5,000-man force to supervise the peace would have. While three of the nations (Hungary, Poland and Indonesia) have somewhat grudgingly agreed to perform this difficult chore, the fourth, Canada, is insisting that the commission's procedures be spelled out. Having served on the hapless International Control Commission created by the Geneva agreements of 1954, Canada does not want to repeat what one of its diplomats calls "an exercise in frustration." It wants specific invitations...
...flair for statistics and corporate buzz words, Ash is similar to McNamara in many ways. He is an immaculate "clean-desk" administrator who reads three papers a day, believes that everything can be solved when all the facts are known, and has little patience with men who do not perform. He has little time for small talk and even less for social pretension-he still drives to work in a station wagon and wears shiny California suits. The father of five, Ash once applied his business instincts to a long family vacation in Europe. He told each child to pick...
...Mitch Silverman, the second-ranked New York state grappler at 126, will fill Haley's spot against both Cornell and UMass. George Baker (142) and Mike Dee (150) can rebound from last week's losses to B.U. if they keep calm and confident during their matches. "If these guys perform as well as I know they can, we can take those important lower weight matches," Lee said...
French doctors willing to perform the illegal operation commonly charge $900 or more; a trip to London or Geneva for a legal abortion would cost at least $600. Two friends sent Mme. Chevalier to an office secretary who moonlighted as an "angel maker," as the French call an abortionist. Although the secretary charged only $300, she did the job so badly that Marie-Claire hemorrhaged and was taken to a hospital...
...crankshaft after an electric spark touches off the explosive vapors, then expel the burned fuel residues. In rotary engines like the Wankel, the same effect is achieved not by reciprocating pistons but by a turning rotor. As it revolves inside a specially shaped chamber, the rotor is able to perform all the basic strokes of a piston engine: induction, compression, ignition and exhaust. The new engine, originally conceived by Karol to get more performance out of motorcycles, combines what he considers the best of both systems: it consists of a large, partly spherical rotor that itself contains two side...