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...afternoon last week, Dwight Eisenhower snapped erect in his seat at the NATO conference table, put on his glasses, and. in firm, clear tones, began to read: "We are in a fast-running current of the great stream of history. Heroic efforts will be needed to steer the world toward true peace. This is a high endeavor. But it is one which the free nations of the world can accomplish." When he had finished, NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan turned to him with quick, wide smiles of congratulation...
Cambodia. Prince Sihanouk, who really runs the country even when he is not officially Premier, intended originally to steer a noncommittally neutral course between East and West. He still may, but lately, possibly because the U.S. and France have been delivering their $55 million in development aid on schedule while the Chinese Communists have made good on just a fraction of the $22.9 million worth of cement, steel and textile shipments promised for 1957, his press has been outspokenly antiCommunist, and Cambodia has been voting more and more with...
...soothe cattle on the way to market. Distraught cattle pick fights with their neighbors, fret off as much as 10% of their valuable weight during the journey, cost the industry up to $1 billion a year. Shot full of Jen-Sal's tranquilizer, a steer will put up with almost anything for as long as three days, will walk up the abattoir healthy and hefty...
...tricky problem of getting a hypo needle full of the stuff in the stern of an edgy steer was solved by a .50-cal. carbondioxide-powered rifle remodeled to fire a needle-nosed cartridge containing the tranquilizer. Accurate up to 50 yds., the needle whumps about an inch into the steer's rump and carbon-dioxide gas forces happiness into the beast. Cost...
...Food and Drug Administration has approved the drug for routine use before shipment, but still bans it immediately before slaughter on the chance that some of the steer's contentedness might be passed on to the customer...