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...even reached the outskirts of Jerusalem, where they bombed an apartment building only a mile from the home of Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol. Sometimes they crossed over from Lebanon, sometimes from Syria, where they were actually based. But more often, they sneaked in through Jordan, where King Hussein seemed powerless to stop them. Last week, Israel finally struck back with the white-hot fury of the desert sun itself, launching its biggest, bloodiest, boldest reprisal since the Suez campaign ten years...
Though meteorologists now know enough about tornadoes to predict with reasonable accuracy when they are likely to occur, they are powerless to prevent the deadly funnels from forming and cutting their swaths of destruction. Help may be on its way. A NASA scientist has conducted laboratory tests suggesting that tornadoes are electrically driven phenomena that can be dissipated simply by shorting them...
...most serious consequence of American control is that Canadans feel powerless to manage their own economic life. All Canadians realize that decisions made in Washington or on Wall Street, over which they have no influence, can affect their lives as much as decisions made in Ottawa or the provincial capitals...
...possibly the best thing that could have happened to him-as for Jack Kennedy was his loss of the 1956 runner-up spot to Estes Kefauver. Humphrey, fenced in by the responsibilities of the office and his allegiance to "my only constituent," as he calls the President, is powerless to counter Kennedy's growing appeal. "He's been too good a Vice President," says a Democratic Congressman of Humphrey. "He's absolutely dead," says another. Both could be wrong, of course, for six years is a long way off. "As far as we know," shrugs a Humphrey...
...Committee has been meeting every Wednesday throughout the summer, and has already sent a petition to the White House with 2600 signatures, Hartline received "a rather non-committal reply" from Lady Bird Johnson. She said she sympathized but was powerless in this issue...