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...seem a coincidence of timing, since protocol forbids that the President should drop everything to meet the head of a state that the U.S. does not recognize diplomatically. After the announcement of the Pope's trip, the White House revealed that L.B.J. had a "previously scheduled" engagement to dine with U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg on Oct. 3. Presumably, Johnson will stay overnight, meet the Pope either at Goldberg's suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel or at the residence of Francis Cardinal Spellman. Among their possible topics of conversation: establishing diplomatic relations...
...wait their turn with long lines of Vietnamese Skyraiders and U.S. jet fighters, revving up for missions against the Reds. But the company has compiled a fair record of promptness and safety (one crash, in 1962), and its cabin service is noted in the Far East. First-class passengers dine on steaks, French wines and cheeses, served by multilingual hostesses in flowing blue and white gowns; one of the girls last year married South Viet Nam's current Premier, Nguyen...
...Dine's sketch of six toothbrushes, with squiggles of shocking pink added (for clarity's sake, the pink is labeled "toothpaste...
...conscripts who resemble freebooters more than freedom fighters. Clad in black cotton bellbottoms, draped with carbines and bandoleers, each of them wearing a tattoo that reads Sat Cong ("Kill Communists") on their chests, the "junkmen" look like tough customers. They have girls in every port, they dine on grilled octopus stewed in rotten fish sauce, they swipe fish from passing customers, and they claim to have searched 200,000 boats last year. But of the 830,000 persons aboard, only 1,850 were arrested, a mere 21 confirmed as Viet Cong infiltrators...
...they are received with such elaborate courtesy that they are actually embarrassed. In many places Negroes still have to bring suit to use swimming pools or golf courses. But in the larger cities, they can eat where they please, attend theaters and concerts without trouble; some middle-class Negroes dine and dance at the best nightspots once a week. The civil rights movement is no longer much concerned with restaurants and the like. Say Negro leaders: "We're past the coffee stage...