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...three presidential elections. But the party stands little chance of winning either of the Democrat-held Senate seats up for grabs this fall-Albert Gore's and that of the late Estes Kefauver. The death of tough Old Guard Republican Congressman Carroll Reece in 1961 has left a vacuum in statewide leadership that has yet to be filled...
WHEN THE CHEERING STOPPED, by Gene Smith. During the last 17 months of Woodrow Wilson's presidency, Wilson was crippled mentally and physically by a stroke, but his wife hid his true condition. Reporter Smith re-creates the time and assesses the effects of the long vacuum...
...smattering of political philosophy, should be ready to die fighting Communism. In effect, this is asking the U.S. to create new, viable societies-which the French notably failed to do during their rule. And the French had centuries for it; the U.S. only ten years ago moved into the vacuum left by France, and is now berated in Paris for not wanting to give...
After the transistor came of age, there was still room for the venerable vacuum tube in the burgeoning world of electronics. But even though that world is getting bigger, its parts are getting smaller. Transistors, diodes, tunnel diodes and their proliferating cousins are getting more versatile as they shrink. And the vacuum tube is slowly dying out like the ancient dinosaur. At the annual exhibition held by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in Manhattan's Coliseum last week, there was scarcely a tube anywhere to be seen...
...fourth largest steelmaker, with 1963 sales of $846 million. Last week he announced that National will build the world's first mill containing all three of the industry's major new devices for producing more steel at lower cost: oxygen furnaces, continuous casting lines and vacuum degassers (for removing impurities). At 65, Tom Millsop drives himself like a youngster. Cigar-chomping, occasionally tobacco-chewing and always gregarious, he is Tom to most of his workers. Some years ago he moonlighted as mayor of Weirton, W. Va., defeating a former union organizer by a 5-to-l margin. "That...