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...conspiracy of the "money trust" ruled by Eastern bankers) and had been similarly reviled. After Pearl Harbor, old rancors seemed lost in the community of defense, but Roosevelt refused to give him back his commission ("You can't have an officer who thinks we are licked before we start," said a White House aide). Lindbergh had to get into the war some other way, was taken on as a technical consultant for Ford and later United Aircraft. By 1944. he had wangled his way to the Pacific, and though as a "technical consultant" he was not eligible...
...strike against Syria, it had lost its chance by telegraphing its punch. Both sides, in fact, were making it plain that they would move only if the enemy moved first. It was nevertheless a dangerous situation. All along the Israeli frontier, any trigger-happy soldier on either side could start a major conflagration. In the Gaza Strip, Ahmed Shukairy, the fire-eating boss of the Palestine Liberation Organization-which has nothing to lose and everything to gain from a war with Israel-announced that commando raids on Israel would continue unabated. In the air, with the fighter pilots of Israel...
Upward Bound is the federal antipoverty program's teen-age counterpart of the preschool Head Start program. Now two years old, it has taken 20,000 high school students whose grades failed to match their ability, sent them to 220 college campuses for summertime remedial work in an attempt to prepare more children from low-income families for a college education. One survey of the 1965 summer group shows that 80% did enter college and only 23% failed to finish their first year-roughly the average freshman-class dropout rate. The program, says the Office of Economic Opportunity...
Although "no specific choice" has yet been made, Princeton President Robert Goheen told the Daily Princetonian that "it is inevitable" that the university will go coed within a few years. Two options open to Princeton are either to affiliate with an existing women's college or to start its own "coordinate" women's division...
...some of the lens-shaped charges of conventional explosives inside (see diagram). These, in turn, would cause the remaining lens-shaped explosives to detonate. Because all of the conventional charges would not explode simultaneously, as they are designed to do, the resulting implosion would not be uniform enough to start a critical reaction in the core of the nuclear device; it would simply damage the warhead and turn it into...