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Hard-top highways, built with U.S. aid and thick with speeding new cars and gaily painted trucks, reach out into the countryside to draw off the surfeit of Thailand's bounty for world markets. Trains of wooden barges riding low in Bangkok's muddy Chao Phraya River carry rice, corn, copra, reams of incomparable Thai silk, jute-and illicit opium-to export. With the Thai annual growth rate of 7% a year, the baht (formerly called the tical and still worth a nickel), backed by gold and foreign-exchange reserves of nearly $650 million, is one of Asia...
...many ways in which the broken chemical chain can lead to brain damage. If the reaction "A goes to B" breaks down, the brain may be affected by the accumulation of A in the bloodstream, or the lack of B, or by some chemical which is produced by the surfeit of A. It is believed that in this particular case, the acid itself causes brain damage...
...Lonely Man in the Big Oval Room at Three a.m. which Lyndon Johnson has worked so hard to cultivate. Even if it is true that like Franklin D. Roosevelt, Johnson has tended to play off one advisor against another to make a personal decision, the fact remains that a surfeit of advice has been...
...surfeit of publicity, M.I.T.'s staunch stand may prove superflous. The Brookline-Elm St. location has long been favored by the State Department of Public Works. Moreover, Cambridge seems unable to agree on any single altern. That was more than evident from public hearing last Sunday. Speaker after speaker rose, but almost no one could agree. Some refused to come themselves, declaring they opposed "any and all Belt routes through
...scarcity of sophisticated military governors in Nigeria and the surfeit of lawyers, Cabinet ministers, journalists and savvy tribal chieftains would suggest that a constitutional structure may be the best means for carrying out this political task. So perhaps in time President Azikiwe will be recalled from London, Chief Obafemi Awolowo (the West's most popular Yoruba leader), will be released from Federal prison, and a new Federal Constitution will be drawn up to meet civilian demands...