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...putting heat to efficient use. Despite an efficient performance as Johnson's press secretary when he was in the Senate, Reedy was ruffled by the grueling pace of his White House duties and, after an operation last year, settled down in a quiet office in the East Wing where he worked on long-range studies for the President...
...Russian fighter has another more atavistic advantage. It is equipped with a pair of 30-mm cannons built into the fuselage. The Phantoms can mount 20-mm. cannons, but only in external wing pods, which are not as stable and accurate as fuselage-mounted cannons. The Phantom was designed to stand off at some distance and zero in electronically. In the duels so far, the MIGs have been unwilling to play that game, are ducking in close where missiles are virtually useless. An advanced Phantom with integral cannons is under development; in the meantime, for all the U.S. success thus...
...students can count. Emperor Maximilian, in fact, abolished it entirely in 1865, and not until 1910 was it revived. Since then, while some students have gone on to become internationally recognized architects, physicians and teachers, others have majored in mayhem, cutting classes, tossing out professors and spouting left-wing propaganda...
When Indira Gandhi took office as Prime Minister last January, many Indian politicians feared that she might become a mouthpiece for the left-wing policies of onetime Defense Minister and longtime family friend, Vengalil Krishna Menon. In fact, Indira had al ready quietly disowned him. Last week, in the first political attack mounted against Mrs. Gandhi personally, Menon betrayed his anger in a scathing 25-minute parliamentary harangue that showed off all his celebrated talents for sarcasm, snarl and serpentine innuendo...
...Parliament, Menon's speech was applauded by some members of the Congress Party's left wing and, of course, by the Communists. Indira was not present during the attack, though she heard it in her office on the parliamentary closed-circuit radio. She did not deign to reply to Menon directly: perhaps she felt that her speech to the nation on All India Radio earlier in the week had already answered her critics. "This government," she said, "is fully committed to the objectives of a socialist and democratic society. But our socialism is one that is related...