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...ESTHER ESS took a seat at one end of the table, and he sat down at the other. There was a noticeable silence--both knew how weighty this confrontation would be. Each waited for the other to make the first movement...
Soon after his arrival in the capital, Kuntze demonstrated his logistical prow ess by requisitioning Jannie Suen, a sinuous Chinese miss who was 19 years his junior. The Saigon siren and the Wisconsin salt, who was divorced be fore going to Viet Nam, merrily made the rounds of the diplomatic circuit, threw their own swinging rumpuses in Kuntze's quasi embassy at No. 74 Hong Thap Tu, Vietnamese for Red Cross Street...
...affluence have also altered his style. His rhythm songs now have about as much rock as a rocking chair, and the most widely deplored Pelvis in human history has practically ground to a halt. The Presley phiz moves even ]ess-it just twitches now and then, maybe to scare off flies. For Presley, immobility may signify maturity. He is pitching his act at some sort of adult audience-possibly adult chimpanzees...
Like every other U.S. manufacturer, General Motors confronts a new legal threat called "strict liability" - the fast-developing doctrine that a manufac turer may be held liable for consumer injuries without being proved guilty of negligence in the manufacturing proc ess (TIME, Aug. 6). Strict liability lurks behind hundreds of pending suits that claim that the rear axle of G.M.'s 1960-1963 Corvairs caused oversteering and sometimes fatal accidents. But last week G.M. won the first of those suits - and in California, where the doctrine of strict liability is well established. In San Jose, G.M. successfully de fended...
...Hong Kong, en route home, the leader of a Nigerian delegation to a Peking science conference said that he was told that Chou En-lai was "on a holiday." As evidence that Chou is not in disgrace or about to be purged, his wife, Teng Yingchao, was official host ess last week to the wives of a visiting Cambodian delegation, and Chou's name recently appeared in its proper official order in a congratulatory cable sent to Ho Chi Minh in honor of the 19th anniversary of North Viet Nam's independence...