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Taurus. Another U.S. Plane will be shot down. After a secret three-day session of the National Security Council at Augusta, Georgia, the Administration will announce that the nation will scrap the old scheme of massive retaliation for a new program of, in Mr. Dulles' words, "tit for tat." No sign of the maids yet, but Bentinck-Smith shouts up that he thinks he has found a likely donor for the new theatre...
...Ridge and Paducah atomic-energy plants had been as explosive as an Abomb. The C.I.O.'s Gas, Coke & Chemical Workers union wanted a raise in pay, angrily threatened a crippling strike to get it; Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., which runs the plants, turned down the demands. After a three-day strike last July, Labor Secretary James Mitchell and C.I.O. President Walter Reuther both pleaded for a settlement, but negotiations bogged down again; an 80-day injunction only postponed the inevitable showdown...
...through sloppy going in the Garden State Stakes, needed little help from Jockey Eric Guerin to win the world's richest ($269,965) horse race. Summer Tan's share of the purse: $151,095.75. ¶ At Harrisburg, Pa., a team of sharp Spanish riders ran up a three-day total of only twelve faults in nine international jumping classes, to win the 104th Cavalry Challenge Trophy at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show. Second: Mexico, with 16½ faults. Third: the U.S. team, which had won the cup for four years running, with 24 faults. ¶ In Texas, where...
...mail. This is especially true in such fields as fund-raising campaigns. Last winter the council asked if TIME would put up an award for the best "Direct-Mail Campaign of the Year." At the council's convention in Gulfport, Miss. this summer, at which we sponsored a three-day direct-mail clinic, the award was made for the first time. The winner: Columbia University...
...editorial scolding the Communist Party, trade unions and youth organizations for shirking their duty of stamping out God. Children, Pravda complained, are especially vulnerable to these dangerous doctrines. The Literary Gazette complained that farmers in the province of Kirov had recently been allowed to abandon their fields for a three-day religious festival that was "only an excuse for drinking." And the trade-union paper, Trud, demanded that the government close down a spring near Moscow that has been attracting thousands (including even some Soviet bigwigs) to its "healing waters...