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...stepped off his plane from Ireland. "We found Freckles!" she shouted. Answering the call of the wild, the late Robert Kennedy's favorite spaniel had taken to the woods near the family estate in McLean, Va. A reward was offered, search parties combed the area, all to no avail. After a two-day dog hunt, Freckles slouched home on his own, muddy but unbowed...
...their need for the public's financial support. These bodies require money-big money-primarily to buy land to be set aside permanently for conservation uses. It is often a costly race against property speculators; unless we can win, all the publicity and good will are of little avail. Conservation is an infant among charities. It cannot grow to effective maturity until it obtains adequate financial support. Only upon this second awakening will conservation have a fighting chance...
Stalag 17½ Peter was 16, a vibrant, defensive manic-about-town. He tried to slow him self down with barbiturates; to little avail. His sister once found him babbling outside school to a bunch of dogs and dubbed him a spaced-out Holden Caulfield. Peter loved, he thought, a girl named Bridget, Brooke Hayward's sister. She took her own life the same year he quit the University of Omaha...
...Anchorage, Alaska, where about 1,000 volunteers repacked the cargo in 6.6-lb. bundles to meet Moscow's postal specifications. But when Perot arrived in Copenhagen, the message from Moscow was nyet. He even tried a desperate call to Russian Premier Alexei Kosygin at home, to no avail...
...Administration's economists admit that they are practicing brinksmanship. Anything more severe than a mild or brief recession would damage Republican chances of winning more Senate and House seats in next November's election. It will avail Nixon little politically to blame inflation on the Johnson Administration, even though Lyndon Johnson's failure to ask for higher taxes in 1966 to help meet Viet Nam costs is a major source of today's problem. Some congressional Republicans believe that Nixon will arrange to relax the money squeeze well before ballot time. But at least one of the President's most...