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...Khrushchev's oldest cronies. First Deputy Premier Aleksei Kosygin, who hailed "concessions made by both sides to peace and sanity" in Moscow's missile misadventure in the Caribbean. Regarding Berlin, Kosygin omitted the usual Communist demand that Western troops quit the city and did not refer, even vaguely, to a deadline for a separate Soviet peace treaty with East Germany. Next day, Defense Chief Rodion Malinovsky reduced his professional rocket-rattling to below last year's noise level, reviewed an eight-minute march-past of military hardware that included only one new item: a 50-ft.-long...
...Government." These days, the Crocketts are enraged by a U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service proposal to buy up 27,000 acres of land in the region for a duck refuge. If the project goes through, some 80 families will have to sell their land and move out. The Crocketts, who refer contemptuously to "them Wildlifers," figure that "people are more important than ducks," have vowed to fight alone if necessary to keep the ducks out. Says Old Bill Crockett: "If they think that the Crocketts stopped fighting when they got old Davy, they've got a surprise coming...
...Kentucky. Through these reports we try to catch the variety and divergencies of a wide country. In Nebraska as well as in the South there are Dem ocrats careful not to identify themselves with Kennedy; in Michigan and New York, among other places, there are Republican candidates who hardly refer to their own party affiliation. Still, out of all this local individuality will come a House and Senate, and many governorships, plainly labeled Republican or Democratic; and after the campaign is examined in on-the-scene detail, it also becomes part of our job to find what common concerns agitate...
...refer to research as the "occult art of head-candling." This statement does not make it any easier to win acceptance among client and agency executives for a fact-based method of carrying on work long since accepted by other business enterprises...
...critics say that all of his buildings resemble each other: precast concrete with graceful curves and lacelike designs, a box-shaped podium for a base, and, inevitably, surrounding gardens that blend with the building. He has reshaped the Motor City's skyline so much that many feel historians will refer to the 1960s as "The Yamasaki Era in Detroit...