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Though 68 and rumored in poor health, Menzies on the stump was brimming with energy, showing himself by turns genial, scornful and witty. Since 1961 his government had balanced on the razor edge of a slender majority of two in Australia's House of Representatives. By calling national elections a year earlier than legally required, he hoped that Australia's current prosperity would carry him to victory. Unemployment is down to a negligible 2%, exports are up, car registrations have increased 100,000 over the first half of this year...
Wires up the Sleeve. Most artificial limbs use the mechanical power of the stump muscles to actuate parts of the hand. But all body movements are controlled from the brain by electrical impulses that pass along the nerves to work the muscles. After an amputation, especially below the elbow, the nerve-muscle system still works as far as the stump of the limb. With this in mind, Moscow Scientists A. E. Kobrinsky and V. S. Gurfinkel decided to use these muscular contractions to make electric currents. In effect, they set about reversing nature's process. The resulting currents...
...stump, Douglas-Home seemed relaxed and slip-proof. To win election to Parliament from the safe Tory seat, he raced through the glens in a fast black Humber, making dozens of plain-spoken speeches on topics ranging from winter grain prices to East-West relations. Wearing a battered tweed jacket and a jauntily angled checked-cloth cap, he fielded involved local questions with a barrage of statistics that showed he had done his homework in the hillside cottage near Comrie that became the official seat of government during the campaign. When heckling stirred an uproar in the crowd...
...favorite guessing game. Who indeed? Though le grand Charles has often hinted that he would like to retire when his term expires in 1965, he has carefully avoided designating his heir. Last week De Gaulle finally ended the suspense. At Orange, his first stop on a five-day stump tour of the eastern Rhone valley, he declared oracularly: "The essential thing for Charles de Gaulle, President of the Republic, is to know what the French people want. I have the impression that I have discerned this for a quarter of a century. I am determined, as long as I still...
...weapon in Mississippi these days. Coleman, they cried, had let John Kennedy sleep in Theodore Bilbo's old fourposter in the mansion back in 1957. Worse than that, he had gone on statewide TV in the fall of 1960 to support Kennedy for President. Said Johnson from every stump: "Coleman can't get the Kennedy albatross from around his neck.' Johnson insisted with pride and fervor that he had "stood up for Mississippi" at Ole Miss, so wasn't it about time Mississippi stood up for him? For comic relief, he threw in a surefire laugh...