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Faced with Vice President Nixon's overwhelming claim on the nomination, Rocky had withdrawn last December as an active challenger. Republicans of every hue, including Dick Nixon, immediately and persistently began to woo him as the most promising vice-presidential candidate around, but Rocky straight-armed every proposal. Last week Rockefeller announced that, to avoid any possible vice-presidential stampede, he would stay away from the Republican convention in Chicago...
...Servants. To woo the demanding U.S. consumer, at least to the point where the accessible substitute is preferable to a long walk, machine manufacturers have improved the quality and reliability of vending machines by employing the latest advances in refrigeration and electronics. Kansas City's Vendo Co. has set up completely automatic snack bars at the University of Kansas and the University of Wichita, offering sandwiches, milk, coffee, pastry and juices. Vendo, which expects 1960 sales of at least $50 million and profits of $2.50 per share, is setting up an automatic drive-in with a complete menu...
Across the Atlantic in Britain, a young (34) American electronics expert, Bill Young, sat in a gadget-packed trailer parked near Jodrell Bank's giant radio telescope. The 250-ft. dish picked up the "woo-woo" signal from Pioneer V's 5-watt transmitter on schedule and swung slowly to track it through the sky. Bill Young listened. Twenty-seven minutes after the launch, when the rocket was about 5,000 miles above the earth's surface, he pressed a button that sent a radio impulse to the telescope's big dish, and from there...
Signal for Woo-Woo. Five minutes later, Bill Young sent another message, and Pioneer V obediently switched off its transmitter. Every hour on the half-hour Young turned the transmitter on and listened to its woo-woo sound for 15 minutes. Then he turned it off to permit the 4,800 silicon cells in Pioneer V's four "paddles" to recharge its storage batteries with solar-generated electricity. This routine was repeated successfully until the earth's rotation put Pioneer V below Jodrell Bank's horizon...
...Your cover story on Hubert Humphrey [Feb. 1] proves that, if you want to be, you are capable of being fair-minded even where liberals are concerned. If you keep it up, you may woo quite a few of us, who quit you long ago, back into the fold...