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South Africans were worried about the growing Rhodesian crisis. Editorialized Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail: "Having let slip one chance after another of reaching an accommodation with more moderate black leaders, Rhodesia's whites seem to have made the tragic choice of facing black nationalism over the barrel of a gun rather than the conference table. The downhill road toward a race war in Rhodesia is becoming increasingly slippery with blood...
...question remains: was Lindbergh ever truly at home anywhere but in a plane? Aloft, he was Lucky Lindy, the lanky youth who thrilled the county-fair set in his battered Jenny, the daredevil airmail pilot and, of course, that shy all-American who put the world into a barrel roll with his 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic...
...their swords as a distraction, even as an embarrassment. The annals of samurai conduct are filled with prodigies of sword wielding: as recently as the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, for instance, a Japanese officer charged a Russian machine gun, so the story goes, and cut clean through its barrel and water jacket with one swipe of his tachi. But the art swords in this show were not meant for such ends. Their unblemished state testifies that they can rarely, if ever, have seen battle. Kept in a Shinto shrine or an armory, polished no more often than a Rembrandt...
...doubtful that an American President could confidently make that kind of statement today. In a handful of European countries, Communist parties are approaching the threshold of political power-not at the barrel of a Soviet cannon but in open and free elections. As a result, the specter of a Communist presence in Western Europe is stirring more concern and debate than at any time since the early years of the cold war, when the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine and the Atlantic Alliance blocked Moscow's attempts to suborn democracy in France, Italy and Germany. Secretary of State Henry...
Wrong Time. The House had passed the bill last month by a smashing margin of 321 to 80. The Senate in July had approved it, 65 to 28. But Ford used his 43rd veto to reject the bill, calling it "an election-year pork barrel." At his press conference last week, Ford attacked it as "a hoax." Most analysts agreed with him that it would have created far fewer than 600,000 jobs-although Ford's estimates that it would produce only some 100,000 jobs at a cost of more than $25,000 per job were exaggerations...