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Kentucky: Nunn Better One of the few bright touches in Kentucky's humdrum gubernatorial race was provided by an irreverent underground slogan: "Half an Oaf Is Better than Nunn." Republican Candidate Louie B. Nunn, 43, a back-country lawyer who in years past managed the successful senatorial campaigns of John Sherman Cooper and Thruston Morton, countered with his own vaguely punny slogan: "Tired of War? Vote Nunn." Kentuckians chose Nunn. Defeating Democrat Henry Ward, 58, a former highway commissioner handpicked by retiring Governor Edward Breathitt, Nunn became the first Republican Governor elected in Kentucky since...
...from such bases as Istres in Southern France can be over Russian cities in a half-hour. France has also success fully tested a medium-range missile called sol-sol-balistique stratégique, and plans to have 50 of them by 1970. In Haute-Provence, workers are building underground silos from which the missiles will be launched. This year France launched Le Redoubtable, the first of three submarines modeled after the U.S. Polaris-firing fleet and capable of carrying 16 missiles shot from underwater; before the end of the year, it hopes to test-fire...
...July 19 last summer, a small notice appeared in the Havana press, saying, "The Habana Libre will be closed to the public until further notice." Militia women, clad in green pants, blue shirts, and some in high heels and earrings, appeared, guns in hand, guarding the underground parking lot. At other entrances there were infantrymen lounging through the heat in their green fatigues...
...meeting in City Hall last night, MBTA engineers said it was not technically possible to do this. Instead they proposed to eliminate an underground bus tunnel at the north end of the station. Buses would then load on the surface in Flagstaff Park...
...proposal did not please the CAC. "This is the one opportunity to get those buses underground--they've been a penalty for years in Harvard Square," George A. McLaughlin, general chairman of the CAC, commented...