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...among them G.M., Du Pont and Allied Chemical-were underpriced. Such a situation was tempting to the mutual funds, which have been waiting for the right moment to buy at bargain rates. Then, too, there was good news: the elections in Viet Nam; the decision by the U.S. to buttress Britain's pound with more credits; the prediction by G.M. that next year's car sales will reach...
...truth, no one can assess for certain the extent of Rusk's influence on Johnson. Schlesinger claimed that Johnson has followed Rusk's policy against his own "instincts and goals;" other observers believe that the President has used Rusk as a "hard-liner" to buttress himself against criticism. In either case, Rusk was calling for a militant policy towards the Viet Cong as early as 1961. Whatever his effect on the President, Rusk's "doctrine" is distinctly...
Wilson himself was acting more and more like the Compleat Campaigner. He sought to buttress his position on foreign affairs by jetting off to Moscow for talks with the Kremlin's duumvirate, Aleksei Kosygin and Leonid Brezhnev. In three days of conferences, he won a Soviet pledge to consider larger purchases in Britain and a promise that Premier Kosygin would soon pay him an official visit. Though Wilson could report no progress toward settling the Viet Nam war, the fact that he sent his disarmament minister to seek out Hanoi's top man in Moscow would help silence...
...SCREEN SCENE, STARRING PETER NERO (RCA Victor). Hollywood seems to be making more indelible music than Broadway. Thunderball, Forget Domani, The Shadow of Your Smile and Ship of Fools provide a varied program for nimble Pianist Peter Nero, who keeps an orchestra at hand to buttress his moods, among them humor: What's New Pussycat? and Help! get full and funny treatment...
...palm-topped flyspeck in the Indian Ocean 1,100 miles southwest of Ceylon, Diego Garcia is the first in a series of four strategically located islets that may ultimately buttress Britain's "farflung battle line" of bases (see map). Along with the Seychelle atolls of Aldabra (pop. 100), Farquhar (172) and Des Roches (112), Diego Garcia & Co. will make up a new colony called the British Indian Ocean Territory. Their cost to Britain: $8,400,000 in remuneration for commercial facilities, mainly copra sheds and fishing fleets...