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...ground to a halt only three years later in a shambles of rusting backyard iron furnaces and neglected farms. The experiment set the nation back economically a full decade; yet last week the Red Chinese seemed to be gathering strength for another leap. The length and direction of the stride were far from clear in the murky prose pouring out of Peking. What was clear was that Mao Tse-tung was rallying Red China's 700 million people for another supreme effort of some sort, and behind it all was the full force of Peking...
...doctors, have welcomed the much-needed help. By last week two more of Dr. Silver's nurse-practitioners had set up a similar operation in a housing project in Denver. Another graduate has joined Nurse Stearly in Trinidad, where townspeople are beginning to recognize the long, athletic stride of their first nurse-practitioner and a few of the children have even shyly started to call her Susan...
Interim Agreement. The French departure was taken in cool stride by the rest of NATO's 14 full-time members. NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, U.S. General Lyman Lemnitzer, issued a heartfelt order of the day to the 2,400 departing French troops, expressing the West's "appreciation for your most valuable service in the past and my sincere hopes for your future success." Simultaneously, Lemnitzer was complying with another deadline: De Gaulle's demand that U.S. forces leave France by next April. U.S. Air Force Colonel Harold Fulmer, flying the first American planes and equipment (mostly...
With the announcement that the New York Newspaper Guild and the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union had reached agreement "in principle" with the publishers of the World Journal Tribune last week, New York's two-month-old newspaper strike seemed to have taken a long stride toward settlement. But there was many an acrimonious argument left to be resolved. And the Guild negotiators were obviously in no hurry to call a general meeting where Guildsmen would ratify the "package" that had been so laboriously worked...
...advertising agency. "Nobody does anything they don't want to do." Adds Judy Deutsch, who graduated from Sarah Lawrence last month: "I'd be terribly shocked if it wasn't mixed boys and girls here Most people who have been through college take these things in stride." Indeed they do-or appear to-and they have given Fire Island a unique place in the sun. "This island just floats on weekends," muses Mark Newland, a senior at George Washington University. "It goes out to sea Friday night and doesn't come back until Sunday...