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Though American forces, when available from the battlefield, will continue to attempt to dig out the Viet Cong infrastructure in the hamlets and pacify the population, this also is seen as primarily a Vietnamese chore. The ultimate goal of the war is for the allegiance of the people of South Viet Nam, says a Pentagon general, "and as long as the guns boom in the distance, the war is still on for the people. I would like to get rid of the boom, boom." In its place, he wants to hear the tweet, tweet of a train engine. "That...
Says the Stones' recording manager, Andrew Oldham, 23: "Pop music is sex and you have to hit them in the face with it." That pleasant chore falls to Mick Jagger, 23, the Stones' heavy-lipped lead shouter, who in performances bumps, grinds and jiggles his pelvis like a spastic marionette. Jagger also has a summons to appear in a Sussex court next month on a charge of possessing drugs...
...increasing number of U.S. Catholics consider compulsory Mass on Sunday an unnecessary chore as anachronistic as meatless Fridays. In a busy and mobile world, they would like a greater freedom of choice. In the West, where circuit-riding priests cannot easily reach scattered communities, many are simply never visited on Sundays. In season at resort areas, local churches are hopelessly jammed. In Europe and Latin America, some dioceses have won papal permission to hold the obligatory service on Saturdays instead...
...afar. I was in early and was summoned at once to the boss's office. He was writing a memo on something about TIME's National Affairs section and stunned me by ignoring the war completely. When I tried to bring it up, he gave me some chore and dismissed me. Later that day I got one of his screeds on copy paper saying, 'Al, see me Friday re Hitler...
...that American aims in Vietnam transcend the old principle that Communism must be repelled wherever it threatens. Goldberg also must try to persuade non-aligned nations as well as America's allies that the President actually is concerned about their carping on the war. This is a pretty difficult chore, but why else would a Supreme Court Justice step down to the U.N. post unless it was a matter of the highest national urgency--and legerdemain...