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...government agency known as the Research and Production Directorate was staffed with Ph.D.s educated in U.S. and British universities. They dreamed up portable oil refineries, homemade antitank rockets, drugs and a highly effective land mine made from cooking utensils and christened "the Ojukwu kettle." Nothing went to waste. One visitor to the hungry country grimly realized that he had seen neither a rat nor a dog anywhere...
...annual ration of cloth is enough for two everyday outfits, but not enough for an ao-dai, the ladies' flowing tunic-cum-trousers, or for a winter coat. There is little local transportation except for bicycles. One recent visitor to Hanoi reported that the only nonessential goods he saw for sale were some Chinese-made pingpong balls. Hanoi's beer gardens frequently sell out before closing time. Hanoi Moi recently carried one letter from a cigarette-factory worker who apologized for the number of cigarettes that were "only half full of tobacco," and another from a smoker...
Scientists at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory in Cambridge, as well as at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, are currently studying our latest extraterrestrial visitor- a 21- pound meteorite found last Friday near Lost City, Oklahoma...
...pairs of socks and, who, had he found out I shared his God, would probably have sold me two pairs of two toned saddle shoes and talked my Heritage out of me. But I was off with my handsome argyles to the Mormon Temple and Tabernacle and Visitor Center where in this statue Adam and Eve were wearing robes while animals ran unabashed in the forest of a salacious mural right behind them and I asked our guide who had not, at the age of 43, yet befouled his body with tobacco, alcohol, tea or coffee, why I asked...
Hess, whose only other visitor has been his lawyer, was imprisoned by the Allies after he parachuted into a Scottish cow pasture in May 1941 on what he claimed was a mission to end the war. Later sentenced to life imprisonment at Nürnberg for "preparing aggressive war," he entered Spandau in 1947, and for the past three years has been its only inmate. The Western powers have long wanted to release him on humanitarian grounds. The Soviets have refused, largely because the four-power prison authority is one of Moscow's last official footholds in West Berlin...