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...breathing spell. Viet Cong raids and ambushes last month averaged 100 a week, as against 135 the month before. Communist casualties reached 6,000, double those of the Vietnamese army. Within weeks, the rainy season will engulf South Viet Nam in torrential downpours, and the fighting seems certain to diminish even further. During the next six months, therefore, the strategic hamlets will have full opportunity to prove themselves. Says Harkins: "I am an optimist, and I am not going to allow my staff to be pessimistic." Echoes Ambassador Nolting: "We are not out of the woods. But we think that...
Thus, by easing Vienna's way into the Common Market, Bonn not only hopes to nudge Austria toward the West but to diminish the allure for West German neutrality...
...level. "However strongly we may believe that public education in America is still entirely a local matter," says Pres ident John H. Fischer of Columbia Uni versity's Teachers College, "the facts will not support our faith. Nor is there any likelihood that a nation whose regional differences diminish every year can meet its educational problems by ignoring com mon national needs." Statewide needs already take precedence over local option - from the dissolution of inefficient school districts to the statewide exams of the New York Board of Regents...
...Majority for God. Interestingly, smoking and swearing diminish at Burgess Hill as the kids get older. Unrepressed while young, says East, they simply grow out of it. Drinking is almost unknown; the kids apparently value their pocket money. As for sex, boys and girls can theoretically bathe or even sleep together, but as it turns out, they only pet a little. "At my old school," explains one girl, "we talked about boys all day long. Here boys and girls mix so freely that we take one another for granted...
...Laos did not diminish Jack Kennedy's self-confidence. Neither did the space flight of Russia's Yuri Gagarin. To that, Kennedy reacted in a manner characteristic of his first months in the White House. First he called in his space experts, demanded that they come up with