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Should the U.S. freely sell peaceful nuclear technology abroad? The question is so important that it is being more and more debated at the highest levels of the Federal Government. On the one hand, the nation's overseas sales of atomic power plants, equipment and services swell U.S. export earnings by a cool $1.5 billion a year. On the other, the proliferation of nuclear reactors can also lead to the spread of nuclear weapons-meaning atom bombs...
...clicking open her compact, rolling more lipstick onto each sufficient coat of it, clicking it closed, Mrs. Ruth gazed around the park. Out on the field, not far from her stood Joe DiMaggio, walled in by adoring reporters. Joe Louis stood close. Strolling around the new grass, having a swell time like college kids in Fort Lauderdale, were Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford. Clutching a black cane Toots Shor watched the men on the field. It must have seemed impossible to Toots that DiMaggio was 61, or that Mantle and Ford were entering middle age: they were kids when Shor...
...pheasant feather, a piece of burnt parchment and a child's fan, all pasted onto a wooden board. Some fetishist's fun? No, it is a Victorian novelty, a riddle picture made by Britain's Princess Margaret, 45, for Roddy Llewellyn, 28, a rich young swell who recently vacationed with Margaret on the Caribbean island of Mustique. Roddy describes the work as "a private message between Margaret and myself." According to the London News of the World, Roddy, who wears a silver stud in his left ear, has twice invited Margaret to Surrendell, a decaying manoit near...
Because of the attention given to the Democratic contest in Massachusetts, the Republican primary passed almost unnoticed. As expected, Gerald Ford soundly beat Ronald Reagan, with 62% of the vote. The victory helped swell the President's momentum in Florida, so dismaying Reagan that he sharply attacked Ford for the first time. At a news conference in Orlando, the Californian said he was not questioning Ford's "decency, honor and patriotism." But, Reagan charged, "Gerald Ford . . . has shown neither the vision nor the leadership necessary to halt and reverse the diplomatic and military decline...
...record of U.S. corporations indulging in bribes, kickbacks and political payoffs is already voluminous; yet it is sure to swell. The Securities and Exchange Commission is now investigating at least 54 major U.S. companies. The Internal Revenue Service is probing others. Here are the results...