Scientist of the Week awards and quirky political quips
Weekly column highlights oddball items from government and culture. NOAA’s oil spill card experiment fails to yield returns while a hippo escapes and eludes capture. Virginia liquor ad bans spark contrasts with Nixon memoir sales and San Clemente nostalgia. Congress debates meat terminology as mechanized deboned meat gains traction.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Atlantic Ocean
NOAA
Success Is Different In Different Places
Russell Baker argues Dr. Leon Tec’s claim of a universal fear of success misses the mark. He contrasts New York’s image of success with Washington and Los Angeles, noting the grueling social performance in New York and the practical routes to achievement elsewhere.
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Congress
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Russell Baker
N.Y
Dr. Tec
Harold Robbins
Washington
Manhattan
New York
Johnny Carson
Los Angeles
New Yorker
Tee
U.S. Weighs Rapid European Reinforcement After Brown Plan
Defense Secretary Brown urged Congress to back a five year program costing 4 to 7 billion to bolster Europe forces. Plans include more pre positioned equipment, expanded air and sea transport, and rapid mobility to move divisions and squadrons within ten days of a war.
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Washington
United States
Europe
Congress
Defense
Harold Brown
Brown
U.S
Atlantic
Pentagon
NATO
Western
West Germany
Persian Gulf
South Korea
Ford
Senate Armed Services Committee
National Guard
Israel
Middle East
Germany
Reappraising Relation With the Communists
Washington reviews policy toward Communist nations with changes aimed at limiting Soviet and Cuban influence in Africa and the Middle East. Officials seek balance between cooperation and pressure, while expanding talks with China and Eastern Europe. Marshall Tito visits to discuss Eurocommunism and war avoidance.
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N.Y. Times News Service
Washington
Carter
Ethiopia
Red Sea
Saudi Arabia
Europe
Japan
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Moscow
Soviet Union
United States
China
Peking
Chou En-Lai
Mao Tse-tung
Leonard Woodcock
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Balkans
Middle East
Africa
West
Asia
Latin America
Rhodesia
Horn of Africa
South Africa
League of Nations
United Nations
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Bubbles
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Hippo
Patty Hearst
Santa Claus
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Richard M. Nixon
Grosset & Dunlap
San Clemente
San Clemente, Calif
Department of Agriculture
Herman A. Talmadge
Senate Agriculture Committee
The
Republic
By Russell Baker
House Appropriations Committee
Anks Janes
Warsa Nort
Unity Fielet
W Pact South
Umen Ks
Photo By
J. Miles Cory
Reston
Egypt
Iran
Brezhnev
Winchester Evening Star
Thomas T. Byrd
Roy E. Potts III
Lewis H. Ebert
Eugene P. Miller
Edward P. Offley
Winchester Evening Star Inc
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