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...cold facts do not, however, chill the warmly sentimental directors of the state-run Italian Line. In the greatest investment in money and tonnage ever made by a shipping company in a single year, the line is introducing not just one luxury liner but two. Last week, after an eight-day trip from Genoa, the 45,900-ton Michelangelo glided into Manhattan on its maiden voyage; late in July its twin, the Raffaello, will go into service on the 4,700-nautical-mile run between the Italian Riviera and New York...
...week's end Romney flew off to Europe with 75 businessmen on an eight-day, six-country swing to drum up international trade for Michigan. As a top possibility for the G.O.P.'s presidential nomination in 1968, he was asked the usual what's-your-political-future question by newsmen in Amsterdam. Replied Romney: "I have not yet decided whether to run for Governor or for the U.S. Senate...
...bringing tranquillity and peace to that unfortunate country that has seen warfare for over two decades." Ayub was clearly enjoying his new Nehru-like role as world statesman and mediator. Two hours before Chou En-lai left Karachi, Ayub Khan was off on travels of his own-an eight-day state visit to the Soviet Union...
Buzzing with Rumors.With 27,500 Americans already in Viet Nam-a 50% increase since the Tonkin Gulf crisis of August, the U.S. may well expand that force still further. After Army Chief of Staff General Harold K. Johnson wound up an eight-day tour of Viet Nam, Saigon began buzzing with rumors that a beefed-up U.S. Army division of nearly 20,000 men might be sent over to guard key bases. The fact that 6,000 marines were moved out of Hawaii last week to replace the 3,500 who landed in Viet Nam might indicate further leatherneck reinforcements...
...moved, the court gave the defendants suspended eight-day sentences and $200 fines. Not satisfied, France's top law journals tore the decision apart. Calling the law "most imprecise," Strasbourg University Law Professor Alfred Rieg said that it fails to require crucial proof that "an act has been capable of causing a scandal." At this stage of changing mores, he added, "one cannot seriously claim that the nudity of a feminine bosom on a beach is of a nature to offend the decency of those...