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...fact, though damaged by the MIG gunfire, the RB-47 limped safely to Yokota Airbase in Japan, with none of its six crewmen injured. It was the eighth air attack on U.S. aircraft by North Koreans since the armistice of 1953. Washington's retort was blunt and potent: the presentation to the South Korean air force of 20 new F-5 fighter planes packing twice the punch at twice the speed of the marauding...
Still the search goes on. Last week Ohio University's Dr. Henry Vallowe attracted attention with a report that he had extracted a potent antifertility agent from a common weed. He has used the stuff so far only on rats, a procedure that is far from a demonstration that a drug is suitable for humans. Dr. Vallowe refused to identify his weed, though drug companies tried to persuade him to do so. What he did say was that in his rats the compound did not work, as estrogens do, by suppressing ovulation. If this is correct...
...beat down Martin's pressures for tougher, direct controls on capital exports. - Gardner Ackley, 49, the President's chief economist, has yet to achieve the influence that Walter Heller had, but he is a quiet technician with a penchant for anonymity that pleases Johnson. Ackley is a potent force because he has the President's ear, confers with him daily. In a report last week, he told the President that the U.S. economy is expanding faster than at any time in peacetime history, but that growth may slow after the steel settlement relieves buying pressure...
Joseph Heller, author of the far from prudish Catch-22, adds: "Now that we have established more dirty talk and more promiscuity in literature, we've established the obvious. What is accomplished by being specific? A reader's imagination is a more potent descriptive power than any author has. When everything is told, what you're left with is pretty crude and commonplace. The love scenes in Anna Karenina are infinitely more intimate than any explicit sex scene I can recall...
Assessing the team's assets and liabilities, Portfolio said that the prospects depend largely on whether the squad's left side will jell early in the campaign. Traditionally, Harvard has had a potent right flank, but, as many experts have observed, "the left side is 75 per cent of the game...