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...Smog. Late last year, Miller pointed out, the Big E raced urgently from the U.S. East Coast to Viet Nam under orders "to maintain a speed in excess of 20 knots the entire 16,000-mile trip. This was accomplished with ease." With refueling delays, a conventional carrier could not have made the voyage at any such forced pace. One night, shortly after arriving in the war theater last December, the Enterprise was told that South Viet Nam's Cam Ranh Bay airfield had been made inoperable by rains, and that the carrier's planes were needed...
Some of the performances, however, nearly transcend their material. Jack Cassidy as the gossip columnist Max Mencken is unbelievably slick and professional. Michael O'Sullivan hams to a proper excess as a ten-time Nobel Prize loser who takes revenge on the world by trying to destroy its culture-hero, Superman. Bob Holiday's deadpan makes him perfect for the title role...
Sunlight & Rain. The '65 champagne, because of a scarcity of sunlight and excess of rain during the grape-growing season, will not be a great vintage product. Nevertheless, for the sixth year in a row, France's 140 champagne makers will set a record in production and sales. In all, last year, they sold 78.6 million bottles worth $200 million...
Unreasonable Delusions. The most perfect Hemingway hero, unhappily, did not decline as a Hemingway hero should have. Papa grew increasingly gaunt and anxious in his last months. He got upset over trifles, worried that an airline would not accept him with excess baggage, despaired because he was sure he could not pick up his guns at Abercrombie & Fitch after his lawyer had neglected to pay a bill. Gradually, he began to believe that he was being followed by Government agents and that his family and friends had somehow betrayed...
...last three months of 1965, then such is the increase in buying power that imports grow twice as fast. In the fourth quarter, they shot up 17½% and Commerce experts predict that performance will continue through 1966. As a result, the U.S. trade surplus-the excess of exports over imports-continues to melt, from $6.7 billion in 1964 to $4.8 billion in 1965 to its present annual rate of $4 billion. That surplus is what the U.S. must rely on to finance foreign aid and the cost of the Viet Nam war, both of which put hundreds of millions...