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Died. Alice Tisdale Hobart, 85, author, who sailed to China to visit a sister in 1908, stayed on to marry an oil-company official and crisscross the land until 1927, when she settled down in the U.S. to spin her impressions into novels, first Oil for the Lamps of China, a 1933 bestseller and 1935 movie, followed by six others (The Innocent Dreamers) centered in Asia and permeated with foreboding of endless strife because of the clash of races and cultures; of cancer; in Oakland, Calif...
...turned out, Wilson could hardly have done more to cool the Germans' backing of Britain had he actively planned it that way. In an incredible crisscross of diplomatic flak, the British seemed to get their signals and timing completely mixed...
...only 20 miles northwest of Saigon. For nearly two decades it has been the impregnable preserve of the Viet Cong -until one bright sunny morning when unexpected guests arrive. They are some 80 Armored Personnel Carriers of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division. Crashing through thickets, the APCs weave and crisscross, stitching the jungle with lethal, preplotted patterns of .50-cal. and M60 machine-gun fire. Grudgingly the Viet Cong give way, firing back carefully to conserve their slender hoard of ammunition...
...however, enough to convince hard-driving Heath that his fast-moving campaign was paying off. By air and auto, he continued to crisscross the nation, rapping Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Laborites for rising prices, for failure to settle the Rhodesian crisis, and for waste in government. "Vote Labor and pay later," Heath warned his listeners...
...reveal. Yesterday's brassieres were sturdy supports; today they have become slim bands in the wispiest of fabrics, with halter straps for bareback dresses, and low sides for bib tops. Since the bare spots change from dress to dress, the bras are flexible, come with convertible straps that crisscross every which way for one-shoulder, no-shoulder, U, V or X decolletes. Panties have shrunk to bikini briefs; petticoats begin at the hip, are a scant 16 in. from top to hem (previous length...