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...recruited into the National Guard-as urged by his new Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, which reported that Negroes number only 1.15% of the total Army Guardsmen-and directed that the organization be better trained in riot control, his general reaction was one of unhurried stoicism. Accepting a bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln from an Illinois group, he observed mildly: "We have been experiencing some of the same problems Abraham Lincoln did 100 years ago. We hope and pray that we can handle them with the compassion and wisdom that...
...creeping economic malaise has been afflicting the French economy. Unemployment stands at its highest in a decade, while first-quarter industrial production fell 1.6% from a year earlier. Worst of all, the country's fifth five-year economic plan - now half completed - appears to be something of a bust. As Finance Minister Michel Debré admitted last week: "It seems that this year the objective of the plan will not be attained...
...Monro must respond to get Harvard off the hook. Or, just as likely, they said, the cops and the feds are planning a big raid on the University, and Monro wants to clean the place up to spare Harvard the bad publicity that would result from the bust...
...this week hazards: "General Sarnoff is really a corporal." And then again, the sculpture that Robert Berks did for our cover is bound to evoke an obvious if awful contribution from graffiti fanciers, and so we might as well be the first to say it: "Johnny Carson is a bust...
After his epic bust-up with Jerry Lewis in 1956, Crooner Dean Martin seemed to have little more to offer than any boozily pattering straight man with a boyish twinkle and a set of imitation Crosby-Como tonsils. Indeed, a lot of his enemies and some of his friends thought that Dino would likely end his career croaking in cocktail lounges from Far Rockaway to Skokie. But there seems to be quite a market for patter and twinkle these days. Variety reported last week that Martin, 49, from his TV variety series, record royalties, club dates and movie lucre, earns...