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Texas Bull. The President got the tonic he really needed in South Korea, where joun son means "good guest." At Seoul, more than 1,000,000 people -more than half of them schoolchildren-lined his 17-mile motorcade route, strewing it with thousands of chrysanthemums and a ton and a half of confetti. A forest of welcoming signs rose above their heads, many bearing bizarre, if well-intended, portraits of a green-faced, Oriental-eyed Lyndon Johnson with an outsized nose like Charles de Gaulle's. The slogans were on the inscrutable side. WELCOME TEXAS GRANDPA, said one. Another...
That night, looking as if she had taken a direct hit in battle, the 42,000-ton Oriskany limped across the South China Sea, bound for Subic Bay in the Philippines. Shortly after she docked there, honor guards from her crew carried away a seemingly endless line of flag-draped coffins. Thus, only two weeks before she was due to finish her second tour of duty off Viet Nam, the Oriskany suffered in one day the Navy's worst disaster of the Viet Nam War: 35 officers (24 of them combat-conditioned pilots) and eight enlisted men had died...
...rate, and modernization of plants has raised steel capacity beyond actual needs. Western European steel plants, which normally work at 90% of cinacity, have had to cut back to 78% of capacity for the second half of 1966, and the price of steel plate has dropped from $107 a ton two years ago to $99 today...
...with underproduction, the Coal-Steel Community's High Authority in July proposed as a first step what amounted to a coal subsidy to be paid to Germany by the other five members. This would have enabled German coal to compete with U.S. coal, which sells for $4 a ton less in Europe. But the French vetoed the plan on the grounds that they did not want to subsidize the German coal industry and that they did not want to give the High Authority any more "supranational" power. Then the threats of separate national solutions started...
Hawaii. A cinema spectacle is like a ten-ton mouse: who needs it? A live one is a miracle, and the public will pay plenty for a peek. A dead one stinks so loud nobody will go near it. Most spectacles these days are born dead. Hawaii, as it happens, is a normal, lively, fairly intelligent ten-ton mouse...