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...imposed upon the Soviet Union or the U.S. It has no interest in maintaining the tradition of freedom of the seas for its own minuscule coastal navy, nor does it carry the burden of an atomic arsenal. Past masters of propaganda, the North Koreans can be expected to wring the maximum insult from the Pueblo affair. North Korea proclaimed that Kim's soldiers "are renewing their resolve to repulse the U.S. imperialist aggressors at one stroke, if the enemy dares pounce upon us like a puppy unafraid of a tiger." The danger is that the North Koreans, flushed with...
Roller Skating. The missionaries, mainly Jesuit, are among the most effective Americans in Micronesia. "If you want to get 500 out of every dollar, let the government do it," says one U.S. trust-territory officer. "If you want to wring $1.10 out of every dollar, let the missionaries do it." Best known of the missionaries is Father Hugh F. Costigan, who runs the Jesuits' Ponape Agricultural and Trade School, training 160 Micronesians at a time in such basic skills as mechanics, construction and animal husbandry. Another hard-driving missionary is the Rev. Edmund Kalau, a Lutheran and onetime Luftwaffe...
Ford did manage to wring some relief in the haggling over the last major contract hangup, which concerned the U.A.W.'s cherished cost-of-living escalator clause. While the old contract provided for unlimited automatic wage adjustments geared to the consumer price index, this time Ford got annual ceilings of 8? and 7? in the second and third years of the contract, agreeing to a minimum annual increase of 3? in return. The pennies were not peanuts; 1? an hour on Ford's 160,000-man payroll means $3,200,000 a year...
Shipwreck and sea-wrack and sea-tangle Survive the dark magmas foundering Kelson and sextants relinquish a wrangle In souls from breached flesh combustions wring A subtlety alembicked and affined To ardent basalts...
...telling the poor what is good for them. You must let them run the program, even if they run it badly at first." The view that the poor must actively participate in poverty programs, though widely shared by sociologists, will make it no easier for Lyndon Johnson to wring funds out of Congress...