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While whatever is afoot in Moscow and Hanoi remains unclear, it is obvious that in the U.S. the climate over Viet Nam has changed considerably. The sharp edges of dissent have blurred a bit, and the extreme opposition-both left and right-has grown less raucous. In such an atmosphere, Lyndon Johnson should have more room to maneuver...
...Mallet Club, unrivaled at home, ignominiously defeated eight straight times by London's Hurlingham Croquet Club. "Do you need a coach?" inquired the British captain. "We need a coach-and-four," groaned a U.S. player. But the colonials have just begun to fight. Back home, plans were already afoot to form a kind of U.S. Olympic team of malleteers, including all the croquet greats: Composer Richard Rodgers, Actors David Wayne and Gig Young, and as spiritual leader, a man described as "a living croquet legend in his lifetime," Ambassador W. Averell Harriman...
Perhaps more original are Antoine's reflections on love, modern-style. In France, there is a movement afoot to repeal a 1920 statute prohibiting contraceptives for women. While the law itself has never been much of an inhibiting factor in France, it does give Antoine and the kids something to protest about. He sings an anguished ballad about an impoverished young wife who winds up killing her nine children and herself. He makes the same point in a lighter strain in Antoine's Lucubrations, his hottest-selling record...
...Passion" has been in progress for one year. Last May Associate Editor Ed Magnuson (Minnesota, '50, magna cum laude) and Senior Editor William Forbis (Montana, '39, cum laude) went their separate ways visiting campuses and sitting in on lectures across the U.S. to learn what was afoot in the college classroom...
...What was afoot, it turned out, was a TIME cover, but there was much homework to be done. Writer Magnuson monitored more college classes in the East and Middle West, and early in the year the news bureaus were asked to scout the campuses in their areas and search out top teachers. In what is probably a journalistic exercise without precedent, scores of TIME reporters went back to school...