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...deliquents 50 cents to $2 an hour for talking into a tape recorder about themselves. Each boy had between two and five interviews a week for some nine months, and then left--some to new jobs, some to the armed services, others to school. A few wound up back in prison...
...Houston, where the new Mercury astronaut space center is abuilding, Kennedy got a briefing on orbital and moon-flight tactics from the Mercury astronauts, wound up the Texas phase of his trip with a ringing pep talk to 50.000 people at Rice University Stadium. Said the President: "Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the Industrial Revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to flounder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean...
Estes had been told that Andersen, as ranking G.O.P. member of the Agriculture appropriations subcommittee, would make a "good Republican contact." So Estes paid a visit to Andersen's office, wound up buying $4,000 worth of stock in an Andersen family coal mine. Andersen did not bother to deliver certificates until the Estes scandal broke...
...attached to the Defense Ministry, De Gaulle wrote a slim volum, The Army of the Future, which mirrored the conviction of most Frenchmen that the traditional hostility between France and Germany was "in the nature of things." The border between the two countries, wrote De Gaulle, "is an open wound; the wind that sweeps it is laden with ulterior motives...
...into a protest vote. The Socialists predicted that 70% of the ballots would be left blank, and Peking tried to buy a few votes by dangling hints that it would resume its once large rubber purchases if Singapore stayed out of the new federation. But it was Lee who wound up with 71% of the vote; barely 25% of the 561,559 ballots were blank...