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...wear the amulet into a bordello. And though Vientiane's whisky-tippling set often honors Buddha's fourth rule more in spirits than in spirit, at least their chauffeurs use only the softest tail feathers of a rooster to dust the Mercedes-so as to avoid crushing the least ant, who could well be somebody's mother...
...state legislature and the past four as secretary of state. > Republican John Chafee, 42, won in Rhode Island by a mere 398 votes in a 1962 race that was not officially decided for weeks. This year, in the generally Democratic state, Chafee was opposed by two-term Democratic Lieuten- ant Governor Edward P. Gallogly, 45. Chafee urged voters to split their ballots and in that effort received aid from an unusual source. The state election board, with two of its four-man membership appointed by Chafee, publicized its own instructions about how to split the Rhode Island ticket naming Johnson...
...Ant & Boulder. But viewed against the enormity of South Viet Nam's problems, Khanh-a visibly wearier man than the bouncy
...fellow he was when he took over six months ago-seems like an ant struggling with a boulder. "All he needs," says an American adviser, "is some competent administration at lower levels"-and this is precisely what Khanh lacks. In a land where colonial France deliberately restricted the Vietnamese participation in government (the French even posted their own traffic cops in Saigon), Viet Nam's civil service is shot through with inefficiency, not to mention graft, favoritism, inexperience, sloth; many ranking military leaders act more like petty politicians than professional soldiers...
...foreign capital. The Presidents and Ministers are receptive to the advice, partly because many of them have a much finer appreciation of the nuances of economics than political leaders used to have. Several economists have risen to head governments, including West Germany's Ludwig Erhard, Portugal's António Salazar and Bolivia's Victor Paz Estenssoro. Others, such as Britain's Harold Wilson, are hopefully planning their own takeover...