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That man seemed almost certain to be former Premier Georges Pompidou, a stocky, graying bon vivant who possesses perhaps more solid credentials of intellect and experience???if not on the historic scale of a De Gaulle?to take over his country than any other Western political peers. The engineer of most of De Gaulle's last triumphs, the administrator of France's return to order after last spring's chaos, Pompidou was unceremoniously dismissed from office by De Gaulle in July. From the role of rejected dauphin he moved skillfully to become a visible alternative to De Gaulle's rule...
...involved parties. For one thing, it would require each side to demonstrate its good faith in a succession of moves, rather than asking it to risk its position on a single bold stroke. For another, it would give U.S. fighting men time to initiate their ARVN replacements with firsthand experience???and keep providing, until the last phase, the most complicated kinds of battlefield assistance, especially air support...
...books, meant to be read while lying on your tummy, on the floor, in the flicker of firelight. Exquisite pictures, in color, by H. Willebeek Le Maire perfect its charm. There are twelve tales. You like each one best, as you read it, and re-reading them repeats the experience???either backward or forward. Typical verse...
Five years later, the ZR-3?the product of 25 years of German experience???made a journey nearly twice as long, at an average speed of 60 m.p.h. Far from having no gas left on arrival, she could have gone another 3,000 miles. Bringing only 32 men, she could have just as easily carried 54 and 15 tons of freight. Except for a rent in a gas cell (and that rapidly repaired), she arrived in perfect condition...