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...make a stand against the government leaders who turned on him. Most of all, however, Sihanouk will be remembered as a politician who tried to keep his country out of trouble by sheer grandstanding. Detractors loved to speak of his tightrope act; in fact, says Far East Affairs Specialist Willard Hanna, it was "more a virtuoso professional performance of juggling Roman candles while spinning by his teeth from a flying trapeze...
...dollar promise. Two weeks ago, North American Rockwell put the division's brand-new, $23 million plant at Laguna Niguel, Calif., up for sale. Next day, J. Leland ("Lee") Atwood, North American's president for 22 years, stepped down. The vacancy will not be filled. Instead, Chairman Willard F. Rockwell Jr. will take over as chief executive officer and leave aerospace operations in the hands of Robert Anderson, who came from Chrysler as executive vice president two years...
Lurking Spies. Outrage became an ecological crusade when some of the people who were exposed to the spray began to have odd complaints. Mrs. Willard Shoecraft, about 50, suffered chest pains, shortness of breath, repeated vaginal bleeding and numbness of her hands and legs. Robert McCray, 33, had some of the same symptoms; his infant son nearly died. At least half a dozen other families experienced stomach upsets after the spraying. Robert McKusick, 39, says that 60% of the kids in his small goat herd have been born dead or deformed in the past two years...
...John Kelleher, English; Rogers Albriton, Philosophy; Zeph Stewart, Classics; Harry T. Levin, Comparative Literature; Alan E. Heimert, English; Herbert A. Bloch, Classics; Donald A. Stone, Romance Languages and Literature; Willard V. O. Quine, Philosophy; Calvert C. Watkins, Linguistics...
...task of the Secretary of Labor, and probably his most delicate one, to set the tone of the Administration in major labor-management disputes. In that, George Pratt Shultz stands in sharp contrast to his activist Democratic predecessors, Arthur Goldberg and Willard Wirtz, who intervened frequently if reluctantly at Lyndon Johnson's behest. Before last week's strike against General Electric, Shultz held private meetings with company officials and union leaders. He has quietly helped to cool several other labor disputes, particularly in the airlines. But he firmly opposes direct and heavily publicized intervention. "We want the free...