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...been anxious to go to war but gave the Israelis a respectable fight, demanded that Israel be condemned and that it give up "the fruits of aggression" before any peace talks could be considered. Unlike the intransigent Syrians and Egyptians, Hussein did not accuse the U.S. of tak ing part in the scrap. Instead of looking for scapegoats, he admitted that the Arabs had lost all by themselves. "It is apparent that we have not yet learned well enough how to use the weapons of modern warfare," he said. "But we will if we have...
Shuttling into Kai Tak Airport, 24 chartered Pan American 707s daily un load waves of Gibson dealers and their wives who have won a "High Adventure in Hong Kong" trip by filling sales quo tas on refrigerators, washers, dryers and air conditioners. Before the month-long series of visits is over, 3,700 Gibson girls and boys will have sampled Hong Kong for four days, spent another day in Tokyo for good measure...
...Hanover, N.H., Geologist Chester Lang-way Jr. has been dating the ice cores both by counting the yearly layers -much as the age of a tree is determined by counting its rings - and by isotope dating of bubbles of ancient air trapped when the ice was formed. Samples tak en from the bottom of the sheet have been found to be as much as 10,000 years old. The ice and the trapped air bubbles are also being analyzed for composition, organic and inorganic im purities, influences of climate and other characteristics that add up to a polar history...
...Johnson has done a great deal for the voters. He has pushed through Congress a remarkable amount of valuable legislation and, despite his foot-dragging on inflation, will still preside over a thriving economy. And, as the year's primary elections have shown, no anti-Administration issues have tak en deep root. Nonetheless, if Lyndon Johnson truly aims-as he surely does -to continue as an effective President, he cannot do so without re-establishing his credibility with his constituents...
This confidence was shaken when the Chinese New Year, always a time of free spending, produced heavier than usual calls for cash. Unable to meet the unexpected demand, two small banks, Ming Tak and Canton Trust & Commercial, closed their doors in the face of clamoring depositors. As news of the closings spread, panicked shop and office workers abandoned their jobs to queue up in lines as long as 500 yards outside a dozen more banks. Thousands slept on sidewalks overnight to keep their places in line...