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...weeks after it began, the biggest and costliest strike in U.S. airline history ended last week with a labor triumph. The 35,400 striking members of the International Association of Machinists not only slapped down Lyndon Johnson's personal efforts at peacemaking, but won a settlement so lavish as to threaten the whole economy with a major round of wage-price inflation...
...revisions), caustic, and in reliable taste. Maxim's (ranked by Michelin as one of France's twelve*** restaurants) has been off Fielding's list since the death of Maitre d'hótel Albert Blaser in 1959, and he attacks Chez Denis (*) for serving "the costliest meal in Paris today." As for the London Hilton, it is "the closest version of a 'hotel machine' that America could export. It functions, it looks (and it is) sleek and modern; it provides food, drink, comfort, and even luxury. The only two vital ingredients it lacks...
...year ago. Farther south, the ground war was markedly intensified in both scale and determination. More than 25,000 U.S., South Korean and South Vietnamese troops scoured the countryside in six massive operations; one of them, the division-sized "Operation White Wing," was the biggest and possibly the costliest yet mounted in the war (see THE WORLD...
...argument that children suffer most by a divorce no longer seems to be a deterrent; many psychiatrists believe that they can adjust nicely to an orderly divorce. "Divorce is not the costliest experience possible to a child," says Child Psychiatrist J. Louise Despert. "Unhappy marriage without divorce can be far more destructive." The gradual weakening of religious strictures against divorce has also tended to make it more acceptable; all but the most fundamental U.S. Protestants now accept civil divorce-and the "new moralists" go further. In destructive family situations, says the Rev. Dr. Joseph F. Fletcher, professor of Christian social...
Since Lyndon Johnson's ringing declaration of July 28-"We will stand in Viet Nam"-the U.S. has mounted the biggest, swiftest, costliest military buildup in peacetime history. It has laid supply lines across 8,000 miles of ocean. And the nation has filled them in that time with as many tons of materiel as the U.S. could deliver for the first five months of its North African invasion in World War II. From humming Stateside training camps, where 12,500 recruits a month are being taught to fight, to the beaches and jungles of South Viet Nam, where...