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Alexandre & Nathalie. Jackie's conquest of Paris was no haphazard campaign. No summit conference was more carefully planned than the First Lady's return to the city she had come to love as a student at the Sorbonne. In two truckloads of presidential luggage was a blinding array of gowns and jewels?and in making her plans. Jackie was keenly conscious of the fact that no tiny sag or hemline or stray strand of hair would escape the notice of the style-conscious people of Paris...
...happy occasion for the West. There the Red Chinese will sit down as equals with the U.S., and the Peking radio is already laying down the line that the Communists will appear as victors to dictate the future of Laos. The Pathet Lao will be out to ratify its conquest of half of Laos by acquiring a major voice in a coalition government. Reportedly it wanted the ministries of Interior, Rural Affairs and Information-meaning control of police, peasants and propaganda. As candidate for Premier, Souvanna Phouma has all but lost any status as a neutralist. Last week he announced...
...Conquest in Eight years...
According to "authoritative sources." Powers went on, the Communists now plan to take "CONTROL OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT" in eight years, whereas they previously had a timetable of 11 years for the conquest...
...gauge for measuring the influence of science, Tillich took the Greek word telos: "the inner aim of a life process." To the classical Greeks, said Tillich, man's inner aim-his telos-was "the actualization of his potentialities and the conquest of those distortions of his nature which are caused by his bondage to error and passions." This idea, common to Heraclitus, Socrates, the Stoics and the Epicureans, is still alive in the modern world in the "humanist" tradition...