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...Negro Community. To accept this assertion one must first assume that there is a monolithic Negro point of view. Members of the Civil Rights Co-ordinating Committee find Wallace's presence objectionable. On the other hand, Mel King, Negro candidate for School Committee, feels Wallace's speech might sharpen the contrast between freedom in the North and oppression in the South to the Negro's advantage...
...growth is benign." But between those extremes the pathologist's work proliferates endlessly. In Chicago last week, the American Society of Clinical Pathologists and the College of American Pathologists got together in annual meeting to trade expertise on the whole range of human ills and, incidentally, to sharpen up their public image...
...grade steel with chromium carbides, which toughen it, make it resistant to rust, corrosion and great heat. Sweden's steelmakers cold-roll the stainless steel to 4/1,000 in., then grind, polish and cut it into blade-wide coils before shipping it to the blademakers, who stamp and sharpen the final blade. Stainless is also indispensable in making nuclear reactors, missiles, jet engines and supersonic plane wings, as well as surgical instruments and food-processing equipment...
...company spent months experimenting before it was convinced that it could mass-produce stainless steel blades of uniform quality; the chrome carbide particles in stainless steel make it more difficult to sharpen than the carbon steel that is used in most razor blades. Gillette will produce its stainless blades in a new $10 million addition to its Boston plant, which is capable of producing more stainless blades in a week than the 7,000,000 exported to the U.S. by Wilkinson last year...
...domino theory"?Laos and Cambodia would be outflanked, Thailand caught in a vise, and the Malay Peninsula severely threatened if South Viet Nam were to fall. The U.S. is pouring $1,000,000 a day into the country and has sent 14,000 tough, savvy military "advisers" to sharpen the government's war effort against the Red guerrillas. Amid the frustrating military ups and downs, the overriding questions are two: Can the war be won with President Diem and his relatives in control? Can it be won without them...