Word: poundingly
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Thursday, December 28 YEAR OUT, YEAR IN (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). ABC correspondents led by Howard K. Smith review the events behind 1967's headlines-the Viet Nam war, the six-day Arab-Israeli war, civil rights riots, devaluation of the pound, turmoil in Red China-and try to predict what will make news...
...from the sea. Twenty-three months ago, when he first took office, newspapers all over the world ran pictures of the hardy, silver-haired Prime Minister wearing a rubber wet suit and carrying a spear gun. Holt fished from the rocks, body-surfed in the great Pacific waves that pound southern Australia's Mornington Peninsula, and spent hours with his wife, Zara, exploring rock pools, collecting shells and spearing fish. His greatest delight was snorkeling. "From the moment I put my head under the water," he said, "I was caught. And I've been captured ever since." Last...
...other good ones during his monologue. De Gaulle, said Hope, is very upset about the British devaluation of the pound. "He wired Presient Johnson, telling him, 'Lower your dollar,' and Lyndon wired back, 'Up your francs.' De Gaulle also attacked Israel. He's furious because they're occupying his birthplace-Bethlehem...
Quick Zap. A.M.C.'s hopes rest on a piggyback system of two 25-lb. nickel-cadmium batteries and two 75-lb. lithium batteries being developed by Gulton Industries of Metuchen, NJ. The lithium batteries are for sustained speeds, can store 15 times as much energy per pound as lead-acid batteries now used in conventional cars. For quick acceleration-a safety factor lacking in present electric-car designs-the nickel-cadmium batteries would cut in briefly, could zap the car from a standstill to 50 m.p.h. in 20 seconds. And for longer battery life between charges, the Amitron would...
With gold speculation still feverish in the wake of the pound's devaluation, a high-ranking U.S. monetary official flew into Switzerland last week in defense of the dollar. After consultation in Basel with representatives of the international gold pool, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs Frederick L. Deming emerged with the tantalizingly vague news that "we have agreed on an even closer coordination of our efforts...