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...ought at least to indicate to the Atlantic Alliance (which has never known how to treat an ally whose vicious administration of Angola has disgusted most of the world) that Portuguese politics are not entirely frozen. Salazar is 73, and when he dies sudden spurts of opposition will not vanish after November. NATO has refrained from trying to influence Salazar's regime because it fears a schism, yet the oddities of this election help to show that it may, paradoxically, be burning its own boats. The Alliance will not be able to cope with the unpredictability of the huge political...
...Southern cities have been far above the top daily limit, the PHS is not alarmed because iodine 131 has a short half life* of eight days. When the Russians finish their current test series, most of the accumulated iodine 131-whether in milk, in air or on grass-will vanish in a few weeks. Other short-lived isotopes in the tropospheric fallout will die off also...
...itself through the members of his own Labor Party, which holds 70 of the 342 seats. Those 70 votes, added to the 116 of Neves' Social Democratic Party, give the new Prime Minister a bare majority. But if Goulart swings off into leftfield, his precarious majority may well vanish...
...city is divided into 54 local school boards, which supposedly handle local needs, but everything is still red-taped by Livingston Street. Sometimes it takes a year to get a film from the central library; highly trained teachers languish on cafeteria patrol; requests to fix sagging roofs vanish in a Byzantine fog. For years, the bureaucracy left unspent most of the millions allocated for repairs to the schools (267 of them are 50 years old or more); the backlog of needed repairs is about $75 million. Bureaucracy stifles new teaching methods, which flourish in suburban public schools. Each year...
...timidly at first, grow into huge aerodynamic wonders and then recede; teeth and radiator ornaments come and go, sometimes leaving only vestigial traces; eyes, front and rear, grow from two to four, then slip back again to two; some rare species, such as the flat-backed, silver-mouth Edsel, vanish altogether. Thus, in the '50's, when cars became monstrous, chromium-plated caricatures, buyers reacted against this somewhat unnatural selection and rushed for the European small cars, so Detroit turned compact. Now again, reaction...