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Throughout most of history, no household of any substance woke, ate, played, lived or died without servants in attendance. Not so in the U.S. The fact is not just something for wives to natter about over the pink extension phone; most of them have stopped nattering about it long ago and accept it as a matter of course. Servantless living is so much a part of the American scene that a family with two cars in the garage, a kidney-shaped swimming pool, three TV sets, a $1,000 stereophonic unit, and a vacation cottage in the mountains...
Relief troops arriving to press the retreating Viet Cong looked around, vomited, then ate their rice and moved out. Marching through the monsoon rain past giant anthills and through a sepulchral rubber plantation, they came on the rolling field where the first relief force had been surrounded and wiped out. Sixty bodies lay beneath the bright green trees, while wounded flapped like broken butterflies...
Landon of Kansas, turned down an in vitation); Congressional Leaders Ev Dirksen and Tom Kuchel from the Sen ate, Gerry Ford and Les Arends from the House; Governors George Romney of Michigan and Bill Scranton of Penn sylvania, both top prospects for the 1968 presidential nomination; G.O.P...
...ENTRENCHED MANAGEMENT: "The not very good thing that happens in most corporations is that the president appoints a lot of the directors. Some companies oper» ate a mutual protective society for presidents. They all cross-exchange. They stay on each other's boards and they protect each other. They put out a ballot with one slate and you can vote yes or no, but there is a 99% vote because there is only one slate. You have no alternative but to vote with management. Not all of the stockholders' suggestions can be bad; some should be listened...
Died. Robert Watson, 77, actor, best known as the screen impersonator of Adolf Hitler in World War II movies (The Devil with Hitler. The Hitler Gang), a onetime vaudevillian (from Springfield, 111.), whose striking resemblance to der Fuhrer caused so much heckling that he ate in his dressing room and spent his nonworking hours alone in a trailer he named Berchtesgaden; of cancer; in Hollywood...