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...Autumn Leaves. Hanoi certainly showed precious little evidence of change. Though the U.S. ordered a pause in bombing raids in a section of the demilitarized zone near the 17th parallel, Hanoi did not reciprocate. The U.S. has also offered to initiate an over all bombing pause in return for assurance from the North of a comparable deescalation, but Hanoi's response has been to insist on a total and permanent halt of all U.S. bombing before it will even talk about holding talks...
Thus, for the first time in his political career, Romney, who has only nominal competition in his own re-election campaign, has laid his reputation and enormous vote-getting powers on the line for another candidate. He has made speech after speech for Griffin, filling the autumn air with praise ("He is frank; he is direct; you can trust Bob Griffin!"). Romney has set a punishing schedule (25 downstate appearances in one day last week), made countless curbstone handshaking forays, appeared on TV spots and shows for Griffin. The Governor even took the Senator in tow and crashed the Democrats...
...life. Tobias (Hume Cronyn) looks like a pair of rumpled pajamas; Agnes (Jessica Tandy) has the cool, waxy elegance of an unlit candelabra. Their 36-year-old daughter has drifted away from four husbands. Agnes' unmarried sister Claire (Rosemary Murphy) drifts blissfully on a sea of alcohol. Like autumn leaves, they celebrate drift, having forgotten how to cling...
Home is the harvest, or soon will be, and there is a buoyancy in the air as autumn comes in with its blazing hues of foliage. Vacation time is past, but ahead are football weekends with all their tangy exuberance. And for many a family, now is the time for the weekend jaunt. Increasingly, the stop en route will be for good eating. Whether steered by word of mouth or by such guides to gastronomy as the Mobil Travel Guide (which this year sold more than 1,000,000 at $1.95 each), discriminating motorists are timing their trips to take...
...Kowloon Station beside the mid-morning train to Canton were hundreds of Chinese waiting to go home. There were teen-age girls in distinctly non-proletarian blouses, old men in bourgeois pin-striped suits, and women whose arms were draped with heavy jackets in anticipation of the chilly Chinese autumn. The refugees-in-reverse were overseas Chinese from Indonesia, some 4,000 of whom have fled back to the mainland in recent months...