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...land gives them excellent protection against prying cameras. To penetrate the cover, platoons of photo interpreters labor around the clock behind the electrically locked steel door of a special laboratory at Tan Son Nhut comparing pictures of the same minute areas, looking for the subtle changes that spell V.C. They are experts at their work. "I've seen them stretch film right across the room and then count the trees from a prominent river bend in order to pinpoint an area," says Major William L. Musladin, the Recce Tech's operations officer...
...North Rhine-Westphalia, or to let the Socialists rule as a minority government. Erhard himself is firmly set against a grand coalition of Christian Democrats and Socialists, for fear that if it is established on the state level, it may become necessary on the federal level. That could spell derailment for the Wahllokomotive...
...break him." As one of the Administration's toughest-talking hawks, he began urging heavy commitments of ground troops early in Kennedy's tenure-nearly four years before Johnson actually made the decision in 1965. In a town where appraisals of a situation's dangers often spell delay, Rostow looks for answers to national questions through action based on the best available information, tries to cut through the heavy bureaucracy...
Among today's grand array of orchestral instruments, the humble recorder - usually a foot-long wooden pipe with seven holes for the fingers and one for the thumb - looks like a pipsqueak. Yet its sweet warblings, wistful twitters and charming coos work such a Pied Piper spell over modern audiences that the recorder has become the fastest-rising instrument in the U.S. With more amateurs taking up the recorder than the violin, cello, viola and bass combined, the number of players has climbed from 100,000 in 1955 to 750,000 last year. The American Recorder Society now boasts...
Only three weeks ago, the friendly central banks of eleven countries propped up the faltering pound with $1 billion of aid (TIME, June 24). Last week sterling suffered another sinking spell. At one point it dropped to an exchange rate of $2.7869, its lowest level in 21 months, forcing the Bank of England to dig into the country's slim reserves to shore up the currency...