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...familiar with South Viet Nam's topsy-turvy history could safely predict that Quat's regime will remain in power for another eleven weeks-or another eleven hours for that matter. And many military men believe the Viet Cong are currently lying low, waiting for the rainy season in order to launch an all-out attack in the central highlands. Their probable aim: to capture a provincial town like Kontum or Quinhon, declare it the rebel capital, and thus win an important psychopolitical victory that could topple the Saigon regime. But if they fail (and clearly U.S. policy...
...model will enable Taubman to predict the effects of proposed government policies and to suggset alternative ones He will also write speeches for the Council...
...Germany has quietly raised her gold-reserve ratio by 6%; Spain has cashed in 60 million dollars for gold. And Switzerland, the Netherlands and Italy have all contributed to the problem. The U.S. gold stock fell last month to $14 billion, the lowest in 26 years. And experts predict that the worst is yet to come...
...long run, some economists predict that the monetary problem will solve itself when the balance of payments is corrected. Foreigners then will have no extra dollars to turn into gold, and their increased confidence will lead them to retain the U.S. currency they already have. But, despite these optimistic forecasts, many Europeans now question the viability of the present monetary system. This system depends on the world's confidence that the dollar may be exchanged in the United States for a set amount of gold. And, although the Treasury stands ready to exchange one ounce of gold for every...
...past year, a Harvard graduate student has been experimenting with fire whirls in order to learn how to predict their occurrence and properties. This study, which is being done by Shuh-Jing Ying 4G, working under Howard W. Emmons, Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, is the first large scale research on fire whirls. Eventually such research may help fire fighters to eliminate the threat of fire storms and other natural vortexes, like tornadoes and hurricanes...