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...best troops. The South Vietnamese have admitted to heavy casualties: 4,610 dead and 14,093 wounded. U.S. military men hope that, with unstinting American air support and Nixon's morale-boosting moves, ARVN can hold up at least through May, when monsoon rains are expected to dampen the action in the southern two-thirds of the country...
...Wallace before should return to the Democratic fold. He has also lost support from the Democratic machines of the South. Lester Maddox and John Bell Williams have been replaced by more moderate leaders anxious to break the region out of its isolation (TIME, May 31). Yet the drawbacks neither dampen Wallace's enthusiasm for another campaign nor undermine his basic goal. He does not really expect to become President-just to keep forcing Southern strategies on anyone who wants to occupy the White House...
Receding Risk. In contrast, members of the Board of Economists can envision few forces that might dampen demand. Banker Sprinkel warns that the Federal Reserve could stem the recovery by holding down the growth of the nation's money supply, as it has for the past four months. That seems unlikely, however. The recent tightness has only corrected a too-rapid money expansion early last year; for the year, the U.S. money supply increased a healthy 6%, and Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns has said he will make enough money available to finance "vigorous" expansion...
...Service. Mrs. Gandhi made several gestures to try to dampen the anti-American feeling, and refused to allow debate in the Indian Parliament on the U.S. moves. But she also sent a long, accusatory and somewhat self-serving letter to President Nixon, in which she argued that the war could have been avoided "if the great leaders of the world had paid some attention to the fact of revolt, tried to see the reality of the situation and searched for a genuine basis for reconciliation." Instead, Mrs. Gandhi said, only "lip service was paid to the need for a political...
This is not to say, however, that the art lacks intricacies: consider the names of the steps-taps, triple wings, toe tips, pendulum wings, cramp rolls, heel drops, heel digs, nerve taps, hops, jumps, heel cramps and flash finishes. Even that formidable array, however, has failed to dampen the enthusiasm of housewives who want to lose weight, businessmen who seek exercise and kids who revel in the chance to make shattering amounts of noise without risking a reprimand...