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...cajoled Jerome Weidman into rewriting a badly tooled draft of his forthcoming book, Other People's Money. Cerf also thought up the title for the book, as he did for Mac Hyman's No Time for Sergeants, William Brinkley's Don't Go Near the Wa ter, and Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate...
Katzenbach wa sat Harvard for the closing luncheon of the Institute for Police Chiefs, an intensive 3-week management-training course. he made a very short speech for the chiefs, and then presented them with their diplomas. By the time of the press conference, he was perspiring heavily in un-air-conditioned Kresge Hall...
...Main Battle Tank of the '70s), is being developed jointly by the U.S. and West Germany in history's first two-nation collaboration on a major military weapon. It will be too heavy to swim, but will nonetheless be able to crawl under wa ter, like a crawdad, on river, lake or ocean beds, traverse steeply slanting terrain and raise its turret to peer over hills and walls. It is air-conditioned and insulated against atomic radiation. The first experimental model is scheduled for completion next summer...
...courage. For all their dash, U.S. generals appreciate slow, painstaking preparation and careful strategy in the tradition of Quintus Fabius Maximus Cunctator ("The Delayer"). After Pearl Harbor, when Admiral Chester Nimitz was rebuilding the US. Navy, he invariably fended off action-hungry critics with the Hawaiian phrase Hoomana wa nui (Be patient...
Then Gemini returned to docile perfection. Advised by Houston that they were to bring the spacecraft back to earth in an area 500 miles southeast of Okina wa, Armstrong and Scott fired their four 2,500-lb. retrorockets over Central Africa at 9:45 p.m. E.S.T. and skillfully guided Gemini 8 toward its splashdown...