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...stayed for six months and immersed himself in the life of the community. With his light, lisping voice and his blue Jaguar, he looked out of place in that flat corner of the Middle West, but he made friends easily. "He was just as quick as any man afoot," says Mrs. Myrtle Clare, a onetime postmistress, who figures briefly in his story. "Just like a flash of lightning, he was here, there, everywhere." The result of all Capote's footwork is a report, "In Cold Blood," now being serialized by The New Yorker. In January, it will be published...
...only 15% of the population uses money and the country is almost entirely dependent on U.S. aid ($56 million in the past year), business is booming, and there has been a modicum of economic progress. Some high ways have been resurfaced, villages modernized, food production boosted, and plans are afoot for an ambitious hydroelectric project...
Other diplomatic moves were afoot, though without benefit of Lyndon's left. At the U.N., Secretary-General U Thant was sounding out 14 nations-among them Red China and the Soviet Union-to determine whether another U.S. bombing pause would help pave the way to peace talks. In Moscow, United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced that he too would help negotiate a cease-fire to halt "American aggression...
...doing something about it. This year Academy Travel Ltd. will assemble an exclusive and hardy band of spelunkers in London, collect $195 a head, and lead them off on a somewhat sunless 15-day crawl through the caves of Rumania. In New York, Lindblad Travel Inc. has plans afoot for a special breeders' browse through European hogdom's foremost farms - a follow-up to earlier, highly successful cattle and hog breeders' tours...
TIME'S reporters talked to comic-strip artists, psychologists, educators and others who take the comics fairly seriously, seeking to find out what was afoot in the land of the funnies. The final choice for cover treatment fell to Charles Schulz's Peanuts, which stands out among the newer strips as probably the funniest and certainly the most existential...