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...More intensively? Initially, at least, the Administration plans to follow roughly the same bombing tactics as before. Nonetheless, commanders in the field are virtually unanimous in urging a more intensified, selective pattern. None suggest bombing the Hanoi-Haiphong population centers. But they point out that the U.S. has a scant 300 planes to plaster a 7,310-sq.-mi. area, whereas the Air Force in World War II used 1,700 planes to bomb a 2,900-sq.-mi. area of north and central Italy. Even making allowances for the greater speed of the modern jet, there remains a large...
...supplies during winter cold spells, power failures. This week Parliament reconvenes, and the minor grievances at home will provide the Tories with fresh ammunition. This week, too, voters in Hull go to the polls in a by-election for a seat won by Labor the last time by a scant 1,000-odd votes. The Tories have a fair chance of snatching it away-and reducing Wilson's parliamentary hold to a perilous majority...
...Middle Way." Whoever succeeds Shastri inherits a nation that is the better for his leadership. He had a scant 19 months to cope with India's thorny problems; yet his patient, pragmatic approach helped to heal regional tensions and promote a more realistic sense of the nation's direction. When food riots broke out in 1964, Shastri wisely de-emphasized Nehru's overambitious industrialization schemes and gave top priority to increasing farm output. He halted the bloody language riots in the south by indefinitely shelving the law establishing Hindi as the sole official tongue. "We must seek...
...curl right in the middle of her forehead: when it is good, it is very good, and when it's bad, it certainly is horrid. Like the little girl, it is moody, often funny, sometimes serious, frequently and petulantly cute, and then again just plain naughty. Within a scant hour, it manages to touch on the following subjects: the American Ideal, larceny, age, prostitution, sypnilis, dope addiction, juvenile delinquency, homosexuality, et al. That kind of range would be difficult in any play--in The Great American Desert, it's insurmountable...
...nien was on hand to greet the Russian, dapper in a well-cut coat with Persian lamb collar and matching cap. The Chinese had prepared lunch, but the Russians had fore-handedly eaten on the plane, so generalities were exchanged about the weather, and the Ilyushin winged aloft a scant 50 minutes after landing...