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...veto Erhard's Cabinet appointments. Schröder fought back in interviews by arguing that his views were, after all, the same as Erhard's. His foes paid small heed. Snapped der Alte: "You have proved totally incompetent. Germany's position in the world has sunk to a new low, and you are to blame...
...problems, however, are Herculean; some are simply annoying. Take land, for instance. "The Charles River basin is notorious for its bad foundations," he explains. There are already thousands of piles sunk in on the Bennett Street site by the MBTA. But Pei doesn't know if these are usuable. He will have extensive test borings made on the site before determining their suitability. And if they're no good? Well, he'll just have to have them all removed and put in new ones. That will take time...
...Eagles, with fair offensive potential, will ride Norman Snead's good days to some upsets and to sixth place. And the Steelers, old, injury-prone, and totally without glamor, will be as far sunk into last place as they can possibly tunnel...
Lyndon Johnson, who had visited the stricken area hours after the hurricane swept through, poured in millions of dollars worth of federal aid to ease Louisiana back to normalcy. Property damage in the delta would total at least $1 billion, and shipping losses, including 700 vessels sunk or grounded, would amount to another billion. "The hurricane," said a Louisiana politician, "was the worst disaster here since the Civil War." This time, at least, its people could hardly reproach Washington...
...school kids get a glass of milk each morning. Fishermen in Kenya are content: the U.S. gave them new boats so they could catch fish twice as fast, and now they only work half as long. But oops! That $2.6 billion sent to Yugoslavia seems to have sunk without a trace. In Jordan a dike that cost the U.S. close to $1,000,000 meanders across the flinty desert for dozens of miles, waiting to trap rain that never falls. And in Indonesia, as one cynic puts it, the net effect of much teaching aid is to assure that...