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...finding the most useful books, articles, statistics, pictures and even song lyrics among the mountains of background material was performed by Researchers Nancy Chase, Mary Kelley, Leila Little, Marion Pikul, Helen Prince, Mary McConachie, Michele Stephenson and Jane Van Tassel. To garner the most provocative ideas for their files, TIME correspondents around the world questioned historians, philosophers, ecologists, clergymen, politicians and businessmen. The reporting group was made up of 20 correspondents and 20 stringers. Major files came from a special Washington team directed by TIME Senior Correspondent John Steele and including Donn Downing, Richard Saltonstall, John Stacks, Arthur White...
...added enormously to U.S. resources. In the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine and physiology, Americans have won 31 out of 63 Nobel prizes. Among the discoveries in pure science attributed to American scholars in the last decade are the total synthesis of cortisone, intense radiation in outer space (the Van Allen belt), the magnification of light (the laser) and the discovery of intergalactic...
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG is a friendly, affectionate musical that drags a bit in the first half, but picks up once Dick Van Dyke, who plays a pixilated inventor, gets his children, his girl friend (Sally Ann Howes) and his car airborne in a glorious romp...
Premier Tran Van Huong, who had appointed Tri, one of his former pupils in Huong's schoolmaster days, cried when he heard the news. President Nguyen Van Thieu, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky and U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker all attended the funeral, and Thieu honored Tri posthumously with the National Order, second class. Meanwhile the dead man's friends bitterly suggested a motive for someone more highly placed than a marine sergeant. Huong had tossed out the previous education minister after discovering that scholarships to universities abroad, which carry built-in exemptions from military duty, were being sold...
...still a first lieutenant, not realizing that his promotion schedule rolled on in absentia. His back-pay total will thus probably come closer to $50,000. "I just couldn't believe that I was a first lieutenant and now I wake up a major, like a modern Rip Van Winkle," said Rowe, now 30. Presumably the $20,000 in extra pay will provide some consolation for the fact that Rowe will never know what it is like to wear the double bars of a U.S. Army captain...