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...something to do with the way swan's-down-clad Edie did a takeoff on Zsa Zsa Gabor narcissistically bussing her own shoulder. Now Edie, who es tablished herself with a Marilyn Mon roe impersonation, has taken on noth ing less than bugging the White House...
...Cong. Since 1962, the coastal waters of South Viet Nam have been patrolled by "the Black Pajama Navy" -a force of 500 junks and 4,000 conscripts who resemble freebooters more than freedom fighters. Clad in black cotton bellbottoms, draped with carbines and bandoleers, each of them wearing a tattoo that reads Sat Cong ("Kill Communists") on their chests, the "junkmen" look like tough customers. They have girls in every port, they dine on grilled octopus stewed in rotten fish sauce, they swipe fish from passing customers, and they claim to have searched 200,000 boats last year...
...affected by the strike, and possibly responsible for the comparatively subdued tone of the male outcry: the city's 100-odd toruko buro, or Turkish bathhouses, famed for their bikini-clad and sometimes surprisingly versatile masseuses...
...Clad in grey coveralls, with a .38 revolver on his hip and a knife strapped to his leg, McAllister was in the air so much of the time that he began counting "missions" by the day instead of by the flight. He was so expert at detecting guerrilla camouflage that he could spot a Viet Cong position within seconds. He flew in low-like a "goosed gnat," in the words of one of his colleagues-marked enemy positions with smoke bombs, called in hot fighter-bombers, and then got the hell out of the way. The whole business scared...
Social security was mostly an emergency act in a nation still struggling out of the depths of a depression in which, in F.D.R.'s famed phrase, more than one-third of the nation was "ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished." The change since then in American life has never been more apparent than last week, when Congress acted on two bills that projected a new sort of welfare state beyond Roosevelt's wildest dreams. First, the House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate, where it faces certain swift approval, the Johnson Administration's $6 billion...