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...come and go on its errands. But details of its mission and its performance were hard to come by. Whenever a U-2 landed, military police swarmed around it. Its pilots were civilians, and when an airman would nudge up close at the officers' club bar to swap plane lore, the U-2 pilot would smile and move along...
...traveled through neighboring India and the Soviet Union. The U.S.S.R. has granted Nepal $12.5 million in aid. The U.S. has given $30 million in technical assistance; Communist China, Nepal's northern neighbor, has given $4,500,000, has promised an additional $29 million. But King Mahendra refuses to swap isolation for the thralldom of any great power, steadfastly pursues a policy of nonalignment...
...Dowling engages in no ideological flapdoodle-he merely wants to swap ideas to improve both himself and the U.S. As he works amid the fountains and statuary in his palatial, terraced office atop the 70-story building at 25 Broad Street, ideas and inventions* pour forth. He talks of a vast redevelopment of Harlem's slums, a shopping center-mall in Dallas, a development project in Arizona that he hopes to make even bigger than Sterling Forest. Recently he submitted a plan to provide industrial Akron with a new civic center. One touch was characteristic. There would...
Some 3,800 doctors, specialists in internal medicine, convened in San Francisco last week to swap shoptalk on everything from bedside treatment to basic science. The occasion: the annual meeting of the American College of Physicians. The doctors posted no huge billboards announcing dramatic cures, but they set up a few small signposts pointing in hopeful directions. Items...
When 150 virologists and public-health experts met in Philadelphia last week to swap shoptalk on the eastern equine encephalitis that flared in southern New Jersey last fall (TIME, Oct. 5), the conference chairman himself was the rarest of medical phenomena: a survivor of the deadly disease who had escaped brain damage...