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...TIME made an excellent choice in Artist Sidney Nolan to place laurels upon our best poet, Robert Lowell [June...
...which invented foreign aid and made it a permanent pillar of the nation's foreign policy, is about to savor the taste of bread cast upon waters. From Buenos Aires came word that, beginning next month, 15 altruistic Argentines will arrive in the U.S. to begin a Peace Corps in reverse, dedicated to the eradication of poverty, ignorance and disease in North America...
Assuming that such a disaster was nearly upon them, the M.I.T. students organized themselves into seven specialized groups to study the trajectories necessary to intercept Icarus, the space hardware and communications equipment that was available or could be quickly produced, and the effects of nuclear explosions. They consulted with leading physicists, used M.I.T. computers, and determined whether Cape Kennedy's launch-pad capacity could be expanded in time. The groups then coordinated their findings and, using systems engineering, devised a master plan to meet the threat of Icarus...
...nostalgia and nonsense, high jinks and lowlife. Now, says Yale's Associate Secretary Howard S. Weaver, "the concept of the reunion as a big party is dead. There's an overlay of seriousness on top of the fun and games." Increasingly, U.S. colleges and their grads look upon the reunion as the chance for alumni to catch up on their education. Easing out the cocktail parties are lectures and seminars by faculty experts on everything from atomic physics to zoology...
Another problem for the Arabs is that the world is not so dependent upon their oil or upon Egypt's Suez Canal as it was during the 1956 war with Israel. Since that time, other nations have developed flourishing oil industries. Venezuelan oilmen were actually licking their lips in prospect of finally being in a position to raise prices on the country's crude. Many Arabs seemed to recognize their untenable oil situation. And thus, although Radio Damascus called on workers to "blow up oil pipelines all over the Arab world," nobody showed up to light a match...