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...Encircling the U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh and massed around Saigon and other cities, enemy forces seemed to be missing opportunities to strike a second blow while the country was still struggling to recover from the initial attacks. As the days slipped by, the waiting created an unreal aura of suspense. Then last week the Communists hit again with a synchronized series of widespread mortar and rocket attacks. But, without strong supporting infantry assaults by week's end, their latest move did not seem to amount to the fullscale second wave...
...political aura of American universities has thickened since 1954, when the Constitution was written. Predictably, the war in Vietnam intruded into the modest workings of the Council. The referendum and poll being held this week is only the visible portion of an encroaching iceberg...
...Aura of Unreality...
...almost certain not to. There is a real aura of unreality to the exile scene here that is produced by the tension between the expectations of the expatriates and the demands of the United States laws. The radicals focus only on today's war, the hippies on tomorrow's bread, and the law on forever. Except for a few unlitigated areas it is almost certain that flight to Canada to avoid the draft means that you spend the rest of your life there...
...husband, how to avoid sexual entanglements with Daddy, how to make the most of "brief encounters." There is no sexual problem, apparently, that is not conquerable. "Shy girls can be the sexiest," announces the magazine; so can flat-chested girls: "They substitute their lack of inches with an aura of superfemininity. There is something very feline and terrifically exciting about the way a small-bosomed girl moves...