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...does Manila (pop. 1,300,000), where the polarities of the nation are reflected in microcosm. Sprawled on both sides of the sluggish Pasig River, the city straddles a grey-green current that carries both sewage and water lilies into Manila Bay. Many of its streets are potholed; rats chitter behind the wainscoting of its finest restaurants; street urchins peddle everything from lottery tickets to fragrant sampaguita garlands ?all at outrageous prices. The current craze requires shops to have a D apostrophe preceding the English names, as in D'Artland Gallery, D'Elegant Theater, D'Stag Cocktail Lounge...
Defensive Circle. Most of all, Hoffa has made the Teamsters prosperous and powerful in his ten years as union president-and they know and appreciate it. While the A.F.L.-C.l.O. has become sluggish, the Teamsters have expanded (to 1.7 million members, the nation's largest union group), enjoy steadily improving wages and benefits. One of the laudatory messages to the convention came from Tom Buckley of Maiden, Mass.: "I'm enjoying the Fourth with my family as a $200-a-week truck driver. Continued success and best wishes...
Lazy Gents Post. In revamping their sluggish Explorer program for older youth (14 to 17), national leaders concluded in 1959 that high-schoolers were vitally interested in careers; the Scouts were soon coaxing business and industry into sponsoring "specialinterest" posts. Explorer membership has since increased 20% to 316,000, and nearly half of all posts have largely abandoned hiking and camping to concentrate instead on such businesslike specialties as engineering, banking and merchandising. Houston's Explorer Post 997 is sponsored by Esso Production Research Co., whose scientists are helping Charles Haskett, 16, construct a laser...
...highest energy), they aimed a beam from the grating through a Pyrex cylinder containing hydrogen and deuterium iodide gas, which breaks down when exposed to light. When molecules of deuterium iodide were struck by photons in the light beam, they split into fast-moving atoms of deuterium and sluggish, heavier atoms of iodine. Some of the speeding deuterium atoms in turn collided with hydrogen molecules in the cylinder, knocking off one of the hydrogen atoms and combining with the other to form deuterium hydride...
Thus the economy of the 1960s has shown a fantastic resilience to shock and slowdown. It has surmounted such strains as sluggish demand in 1961, a stock-market plunge in 1962, the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, a foreign monetary crisis in 1964, and the Viet Nam escalation in 1965. The problems of 1966 and beyond seem infinitely greater than earlier ones. But so, too, are the opportunities...