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Protective String. The allies look for a series of Communist attempts at "spectaculars" over the coming months, to accompany the peace talks in Paris. They believe that next on the target list is the provincial capital of Kontum in the Central Highlands, where the Communists nearly cut Viet Nam in half just before the U.S. buildup in 1965. Within a month, the U.S. also expects another division-size thrust across the Demilitarized Zone, aimed at the Camp Carroll artillery base and perhaps sliding off toward Khe Sanh again. The allies anticipate more trouble for the Marine base at Danang...
Critical Test. Dubcek himself was busy trying to counter a growing mobilization of the conservative, hard-lining Communist bureaucrats still scattered in key positions throughout the government and economy. His first really critical test looms at the end of this month, when he intends to summon a Central Committee plenary session and try to force the resignations of some of the old guard among its 110 members. The conservatives, in turn, hope to have rallied enough support by then to turn Dubcek out of office and replace him with Alois Indra, 47, a onetime railway worker who sees things Moscow...
...doubts his strong right arm, but was that a softball Leopold Stokowski, 86, hefted in Manhattan's Central Park? It was. Stokie, conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra, is an old hand at the game. He patiently drilled his musicians for the day when he could talk his neighbors, the New York Philharmonic, into a friendly match. So there he was zinging in the first ball while Umpire Skitch Henderson scrutinized his style. Even though the Philharmonic had a ringer in sometime triangle player George Plimpton, Stokowski's sluggers drummed out a 15-10 victory. "They...
...presented his views on the attitudes of white city fathers who must cope with militant blacks. - Dr. Peter G. Bourne, a staff psychiatrist at Stanford University Medical Center, spent three months observing a twelve-man Special Forces "A" team-the Green Berets-operating in the remote, Viet Cong-infested Central Highlands of South Viet Nam. Comparing them to racing-car drivers, Bourne told how the enlisted men in the group repeatedly challenged their commanding officers to attempt missions fraught with the possibility of injury and death. In turn, the men attempted to match their commanders with death-defying exploits...
Called the Central Certificate Service, the $8,000,000-a-year system will act as a clearinghouse for transactions involving stocks held in "Street name" -those that investors leave with their brokers rather than hold in their own names. Although no more than 15% of all stock certificates are kept in Street name, these account for 70% of all Big Board trading. Under the new arrangement, they will no longer have to be counted, sorted and delivered by hand, but will be held by the exchange...