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...achievement of a negotiated settlement in the Viet Nam War is a personal triumph for Henry Kissinger, the most brilliant and fascinating figure in the Nixon Administration. An avid Kissinger watcher ever since their days at Harvard, TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter offers the following assessment...
...imitation is implied flattery, Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath must be one of President Nixon's most avid boosters. Conservative Heath, like Nixon, is a firm believer in free markets, and ordinarily would no more care to impose economic controls than offer a Cabinet post to a member of the I.R.A. Yet in trying to fight one of Europe's most destructive price spirals, Heath borrowed openly from the President and last Nov. 6 imposed a freeze on British prices and wages. Until then Britain's inflation had been roaring along at an annual rate...
John Malachowsky, an eighth-grader in West Babylon, N.Y., has been an avid builder of model rockets and airplanes since he was eight years old. When the price of his favorite enamel went from 15? to 19? a bottle, he realized that his $2-a-week allowance would not absorb the shock. So he sent a complaint to the Price Commission, charging that the Tester Corp. of Rockford, Ill., had raised the list price of its "Pla Enamel" well over 25%. "This is only $.04," he wrote, "but being only 12¾ years old, this is a big strain...
...been overrated from the start. With over a dozen books behind her, ranging from poetry and reportage to novel upon novel, the author of the last collection of stories might as well be begging posterity to forget her. These stories are a rehash--which only the most avid of her fans could call a refinement--of her standard motifs; menopausing women, middle aged socialism, dislocation in London, eccentricity fading into conformity, the last gasp...
...such iron-livered veterans as the French (29 gallons) or the Italians (30 gallons), meaning that the U.S. industry still has plenty of room to grow. Last year alone, retail wine sales rose 59% in Wisconsin, 65% in Vermont and 98% in Rhode Island. Young people have become particularly avid imbibers. On campuses, wines are considered the best accompaniment to informal meals and exotic smokes. Consumption will reach an alltime peak this week because the biggest wine-drinking day of the year is traditionally Thanksgiving...