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...number 1,500,000 in the U.S., 1,800,000 in the world. Last week New York State's Mormons announced that they would build a new headquarters: a 30-to 40-story sky scraper on 58th Street in Manhattan. It will have a chapel, an information center, an auditorium, and office space to lease to businesses. * A nephew of American Motors President George Romney, who also has a son, Scott, 20, serving in Britain...
...given weekday, the 16-sky-scraper complex of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center is likely to contain 38,000 office workers and 160,000 assorted shoppers, sightseers, and moviegoers at the Radio City Music Hall. Could those crowds survive the hazards of radiation if a nuclear bomb fell on New York? Last week, deciding that the answer could be yes, Rockefeller Center, Inc. announced the start of a fallout shelter program that may well be the largest undertaking of its kind in the country...
...scraped with a three-pronged scraper early in the morning, and the opium taken off with a knife before noon and wrapped in a poppy petal [see cut]. Stopping the opium trade is only half the problem. It is necessary to give these people other sources of income, as opium has been traditionally their source for trade goods. They get a low price for it, the profit going to unknown people further down the drug train...
...lived it up: down the corridors of the hospital he loped (as best he could) with his toy cowboy gun hanging from his hip. Back home at Blair House, there were cowboy and Indian suits, a drum, a road-scraper, a Mickey Mouse hat, a bicycle, lollipops, a toy tractor from the President. As if proof were needed that children are the same the world over, he presided at a children's party at the Saudi Arabian embassy and started a typical childlike ruckus of his own. Photographers asked him. to kiss a little American girl, Mary Harris, granddaughter...
...General Motors' rubber-tired, 518-h.p. Goliath scraper, which takes 24 cu. yds. of aggregate with one bite of its 14-ft. bulldozer blade. Each of its two diesels connects with a single track, so that one track can continue forward while the other reverses, spinning the giant around...