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Alas, neither woodpeckers nor cavemen swing much weight, votewise, in Oregon. And the latest Portland Oregonian poll, even while showing Rocky up by three points, still gave him only 21%. Barry Goldwater looked worse than before (from 14% to 12%), and had all but kissed Oregon off. Even so, Field...
Nimble Fingers. Women perform best in jobs that require stoic patience, an eye for detail, and nimble fingers. Atlanta's Scripto Inc. employs women to put together its small pencils; the personnel chiefs at Burroughs Corp. believe that women can tolerate the tedious routine jobs that would drive men...
One group of Western experts, pointing out that Rumania had carefully steered a neutral course in the SinoSoviet feud, argued that the trip was made on behalf of the Soviets in order to show the Red bloc that Moscow was more reasonable than Peking. As evidence, the experts pointed out...
A dynamite blast at a trestle near Miami sent 27 cars of a 91-car freight tumbling down an embankment into a stream. Three hours later, the railroad's only wreck-clearing derrick car in southern Florida was blown up. Later in the week, four boys found 45 sticks...
At a congressional ceremony on March 29, 1949, James Forrestal, retiring as the first Secretary of Defense, received a silver bowl and many plaudits: "A long and brilliant career . . . outstanding talents . . . one of the best analytical minds." A few hours after the ceremony, one of Forrestal's aides found...