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...both Kentucky's Thruston Morton, G.O.P. national chairman, and Washington's Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, Democratic national chairman, in the chamber. New York Republican Senator Kenneth Keating gave a hint of problems to come when he tauntingly offered to assist Jack Kennedy in writing the platform's wide-open civil rights promises into law. Huffed Kennedy's press secretary, Pierre Salinger: "If Senator Keating will read the Democratic platform, he will find the bulk of it relates to executive action." With party mischief a certainty, the special session may become a bruising boomerang for Kennedy and Johnson...
...only monitor a relatively small patch of weather. A ground observer can see cloud effects about five miles away. If he has radar, he can report heavy rain at a somewhat greater distance; even aircraft at 45,000 ft. can see only 150 miles. Between the observers are wide-open spaces big enough to hold whole strings of tornadoes. Some 80% of the earth's surface has no reporting stations at all. In many unfrequented parts of the ocean, a hurricane can be born and grow to adulthood in perfect privacy...
...including more than 200 from the Soviet Union. It demanded "that immediate action be taken to effect an international agreement to stop the testing of all nuclear weapons," but it made no mention of any control or inspection safeguards. Although the genetic effect of test fallout is still a wide-open scientific question, Pauling, backed by his prestige in genetics, nonetheless said without qualification that continuing the tests would lead "to an increase in the number of seriously defective children that will be born in future generations...
...appliance industry's problem is not so much a slump as a boom that failed to get off. As one G.E. applianceman explained: "Everybody was elated about the sensational golden '60s that were going to bust wide-open. We got a little over-optimistic." Production cutbacks are the or der of the day. Frigidaire last week laid off 1,150 Dayton-plant employees indefinitely. This week G.E.'s vast $300 million Appliance Park plant in Louisville shut down its refrigerator division for a week, laid off 4,500 workers. This month it will close its large home...
...early lead with its power-stroking beat of around 40 strokes per minute, then fight it out at the finish with Harvard, which gets great drive from its rhythmic beat of 32. Instead, Cornell surged from the stake boats with a breathless beat of 41, moved ahead like a wide-open hydroplane. Once they had the lead, Cornell's ex-jayvees coolly dropped the beat to 31, understrok-ing even Harvard. Rowing against an 18-m.p.h. wind. Cornell held on to the end of the 2,000-meter course, beating off a desperate finishing effort by Harvard...