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...magazines, performs isometric exercises, chain-smokes Camels while he chain-watches TV, and whips up his favorite recipes on the hot plate. He also spends considerable time fussing with his greying hair, which was dyed henna for his Senate scenes and is now walnut brown. "I put a big dent in Cosa Nostra," he says, "and I'm enjoying...
EDWARD A. DENT III Washington...
...vigorous attack on corruption, coupled with the recent allied successes against the Viet Cong, have so far kept the nation's fractious Buddhists and Catholics quiescent: they simply cannot find credible grievances that will bring crowds into the street. Even though the Ky government has made no dent in the nation's two big problems-its 680,000 refugees and its soaring inflation-Saigon's political situation, say old hands, is the most stable that it has been since 1960. From time to time, there are complaints that it is too stable, precisely because the military junta...
...catalogue is immense. But for all his works and all his study, man's understanding of water remains curiously limited. "Considering the forces that man is trying to affect," says Dr. Raymond L. Nace, a U.S. Government hydrologist, "we can say that he has scarcely made a dent." But scientists keep trying. Attempts at weather control, for example, have been as unsuccessful and unreliable as appeals to the rain gods of old, yet researchers continue to seed clouds with silver iodide and Dry Ice, hopeful that they may some day learn to manage what they cannot yet predict...
...figures that if a stoppage does occur, it will be brief. Pittsburgh insiders doubt that any prolonged shutdown would be tolerated by an impatient President during a Viet Nam emergency; they would not be surprised to see a settlement calling for a 4% rise in wages, which would further dent but not necessarily destroy the Administration's 3.2% guideline...