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...revered and pow erful a figure that when, in 1964, he relinquished the governorship after 16 years, he had no difficulty anointing Sánchez, his protégé and closest ad viser, as his successor. Last week Sánchez formally broke with his old men tor by announcing that he would run for a second term this year - against Muñoz's wishes...
...Karamah refugee camp, which was the mam target of last week's Israeli assault. To main tain a semblance of secrecy, Asifa is organized into c. like "elements" of 30 to 40 men, each of which takes orders only from a central high command. It also tor-bids its members to use their correct names, assigns each a number or pseudonym instead...
...with both feet, all at once," operating the J-2 is a snap. After starting the engine and the J-2's conventional push prop, the pilot depresses a lever at the side of his seat, temporarily engaging the engine to the overhead rotor. When the overhead ro tor reaches 520 r.p.m., the pilot pushes a button to disengage the rotor and change its blade pitch from flat to 5°. While the kinetic energy in the whirling rotor blades provides lift, the engine delivers full power to the pusher prop. Between the lift and push, the gyroplane becomes...
...Johnson has long since asked for a 10% surtax. This means that an unmarried taxpayer who, with an eye toward April 15, has figured this year's federal tax due on $10,000 at $1,742 would next year owe an additional $131, based on a higher tax tor nine months. So urgent has the tax issue become that Washington has begun to talk about returning to the higher schedules in effect before 1964. In that event, next year's bill for the same taxpayer with the same income would climb...
...greater demands of score. In a reversal of precedence, music is now only one of many elements that contribute to the impact of dance, which is a matter of sight and sound as well as movement. In effect, the choreographer has become the Jack-of-all-arts-the direc tor of a new theatrical form that has a total design for total involvement...