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...thought your foreign aid Essay [Sept. 3] most interesting. In view of the mixed results of our foreign aid, and in view of the balance-of-payments deficit, it would seem that curtailment of wasteful aid programs presents the best opportunity to plug the dollar leakage. It is vital that every aid project have a specific objective, and that we see progress toward that objective or abandon the program. The objective must be reasonable, obtainable and in keeping with our resources. More funds should not be granted until past authorizations are spent, or better still, Congress should cancel all past...
...Charge. The latter-day salt does not seem to mind. In fact, rather than lose their charge and their communications, many never even leave the dock, preferring to remain permanently plugged in. Many just like to go down to their boats on a hot summer night, and sit on the stern deck for a quiet, cool drink and a chat with friends. Yacht clubs, which usually let visiting yachtsmen plug in free of charge, are not much happier. Said Ted Tolson, vice commodore of the St. Petersburg Yacht Club: "They hook up on our docks and blow all the fuses...
...reading speed of 180 words per minute. With or without background music, the new news channel, its promoters contend, is ideally suited for the C.A.T.V. installations which service areas outside the range of the nearest TV transmitter. To get into the news business, the C.A.T.V. systems only have to plug in Telemation's black box, containing an A.P. Teletype and a TV camera...
Amphetamines and barbiturates get into illegal channels from makers of basic chemicals, drug manufacturers, distributors, retail drugstores, and, says the FDA's Sadusk, "even from physicians." In an effort to plug that last leak, the A.M.A. issued a warning to doctors to prescribe only the required amount of any drug for specific symptoms, and not to write prescriptions that can be refilled indefinitely...
...murders in one day." With an absent-minded kick, Bundie sent a stray piece of paper flying. Suddenly his heart leaped to his throat: the paper was identical to the one he had found inside the package the sinister foreigner had given him by mistake! Like some great spark plug, Bundie's mind flashed. Swiftly, he recounted the day's events to himself, "The circle with the Roman numeral seven in it was stamped on the sole of the foot of the other corpse. There must be a connection...