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...nation's capital was astir last week with rumors that the bombing of North Viet Nam has caused a deeply disquieting difference of opinion at the uppermost levels of the Johnson Administration. According to widespread chatter at Washington cocktail parties and in the corridors of Government buildings, the disagreement put Defense Secretary Robert McNamara on one side, plagued by doubts about the value of the bombing, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk on the other, supported by the President, the State Department and McNamara's own Pentagon...
MAGAZINES The buzz of cocktail chatter and the clink of ice cubes shrink the vast room with its monumental fireplace, paneled walls, beamed 22-ft. ceiling and two suits of medieval armor. Soft, round girls curl up with boy friends on couches beneath immense paintings by Franz Kline and Larry Rivers. The men are relaxed, confident, plainly well off. A scene straight out of Playboy magazine? Precisely. The men are mostly magazine employees, and the girls are some of the 24 bunnies who room upstairs. A couple of centerfold "Playmates," disarmingly pretty and ingenuous-looking in party dresses, sip Pepsi...
...assistants compile the alumni notes, write the book reviews, and help with proofreading, but the editor has to do everything else. He plans and edits all the articles (writing two or three every issue himself) as well as doing all the headline and layout work. "People ask me at cocktail parties whether this is a full-time job, and I try to be polite," Bethell comments with a smile...
There's an aura of excitement around 14 Plympton St. Not only on the special occasions that call for a private cocktail party. Not simply because the best college newspaper in the country is put together there. It's because when you're on the CRIMSON you're on your own--doing Harvard the way you want to, not the way they've got it planned...
Inside a U.S. ferret satellite flashing around the earth at 17,000 m.p.h., supersensitive instruments intercept and flick back to Virginia a radio message between Moscow and a Soviet submarine in the Pacific. In Laos, an American listens attentively to the words of a cocktail waiter, then slips him a bar of silver. In an office of the U.S. embassy in Bonn, a rotund Sovietologist digests a stack of reports that may originate from any one of a thousand sources -a barber in East Berlin, a whorehouse madam in Vienna, a U.S. electronics salesman in Darmstadt, an Eastern European propaganda...