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...National Advisory Commission on Selective Service is a blue-ribbon committee in the hoary tradition of blue-ribbon committees. What its 22 members say about the draft when they report to the President January 1, will represent the thinking of responsible adults everywhere. And because the Commission has been most attentive to Johnson's pronouncements and most careful to tune their logic to his, what they say will be listened...
Attached to the Commerce Department until 1961, the blue-ribbon Business Council of some 100 corporate chiefs is now an independent but highly influential group: it provides guidance on Government programs, recruits businessmen to fill Administration jobs, and serves as a sounding board for Administration policies. Beyond the status it gives them in Washington, members value the Council as a forum for top-level cross-pollination of ideas and attitudes...
...darkness was enveloping the bay, turning the mountains beyond it a deep purple and leaving only a golden-orange ribbon at the rim of the horizon. Just 2 hours and 24 minutes after he arrived, the President boarded his big Boeing 707. Scarcely six hours after leaving Manila, he was back-and only then was the news of his historic trip broken. In Saigon, newsmen got wind of it a couple of hours earlier, but the government pulled the plug on all press circuits for 21 hours to make sure that the President was safely back in the Philippines...
...Hard Business. Among the handshakes and ribbon snipping, Belaúnde and Barrientos talked hard business...
...M.S.U. researchers designed a tractor-pulled Rube Goldberg device that lifts a 2-ft.-deep strip of earth from the field, sprays warm liquid asphalt underneath it, and then allows the soil to settle back in place. The asphalt solidifies immediately into a 34-in.-wide, ⅛-in.-thick ribbon. Adjacent ribbons are overlapped to ensure that the entire layer will be watertight. To reduce costs, Engineer Hansen is now working on a machine that will lay down lO-ft.-wide strips...