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...China: "Our candidate has not yet mentioned that it was during the Kennedy-Johnson years that the blue whale became commercially extinct." ∙The Wichita, Kans., Eagle affected dismay after Johnson kissed a baby: "Is it proper for the President to expose himself to the afflictions which beset the nursery crowd? Measles or whooping cough in the White House could have repercussions for the whole free world." ∙The Washington Star was amused by the Johnsonian declaration that "for the first time in history, profits are higher than ever before": "With the above offering, the Chief has taken his place...
Actually, the 30th African country to achieve independence in the past decade is beset by fewer problems than most. Despite sporadic fighting between government troops and the fanatical Lumpa cultists (TiME, Aug. 7), in which 650 people thus far have been shot or chopped to death and 150 villages burned to the ground, Zambia's future looks comparatively bright. One reason is that Zambia contains nearly a fourth of the world's known copper reserves, and her mines are heading for a $400 million production year, providing 68% of the gross domestic product. The chief economic problem...
...beginning to show it. Premier Chou Enlai, 66, is ailing, as is Defense Minister Lin Piao, at 56 a mere bean sprout in the Peking Politburo, whose average age is 65. Often mentioned as Mao's successor, Party Secretary-General Teng Hsaio-ping is over 60. Beset by intimations of mortality, the Red leadership has launched a campaign to "cultivate millions of successors to carry on the cause...
...trouble, according to Epps, occours because, in a year beset by complex problems and important decisions, the "bedeviled sophomore" loses the advisors, counselors and proctors who were available in his freshman year...
When the Doty Committee was appointed to study the state of General Education at Harvard, it faced an obvious but complex problem: Could it make both coherent and strong a program of General Education which was beset by confused and somewhat contradictory purposes, bedeviled by out-of-date requirements, and beleaguered by the departments that continually frustrated attempts to lure Faculty members into the program? Last May, when the report was released, the decision became apparent; the Doty Committee had emphasized strength not coherence, had been pragmatic and political but not philosophical...