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Kennedy presented a new version of the Vice President's overseas travels. "In Vietnam he urged the French to continue to fight. On Formosa he implied our support of an invasion of the mainland of China. In India he questioned Nehru's right to be neutral. In Venezuela his goodwill tour provoked a riot. And in the Soviet Union he argued with Mr. Khrushchev in the kitchen, pointing out that while we may be behind in space, we were ahead in color television. Mr. Nixon may be very experienced in kitchen debate, but so are a great many...
...main events of the Games: the duels this week on the brick-red track of the Olympic Stadium. Decathlon Star Rafer Johnson (TIME cover. Aug. 29), proud flagbearer of the U.S. team in the opening ceremonies, spent up to six hours a day getting ready for his battle with Formosa's Yang Chuan-kwang, and Russia's Vasily Kuznetsov. Foreigners flocked to watch the workouts of another U.S. superstar: Boston University's High Jumper John Thomas, 19, holder of the world record at 7 ft. 3¾ in. When some Russians showed up to gawk, Thomas coolly...
There, day after day, Johnson and Yang held their own private meet. Formosa's formidable Yang had been a promising baseball pitcher at home in 1954 when track coaches noticed his running speed and agility, talked him into trying the decathlon. To his astonishment, Yang won the Asian Games that year. In 1958 Yang came to the U.S. for a couple of months to pick up pointers, liked it so well that he learned to speak English and settled down as a physical education student at U.C.L.A. to work with Johnson. At 6 ft. 1 in., 180 lbs., Yang...
...general, those nations that sigh for some way to negotiate an end to the cold war leaned to the Democrats; those that believe in the tough line felt better on the side of the Republicans. Formosa's daily Lien Ho Jih Pao suspected that "Senator Kennedy is not mature on the China problem." Many Turks seemed to agree with an Ankara businessman who said: "Nixon was willing to stand up to the Russians, but we don't know anything about Kennedy." In Britain and the Scandinavian countries, where nostalgia for Adlai Stevenson remains high, much sentiment favored...
...began a cruise that any peacetime sailor might envy. The Seventh Fleet destroyer leader called at Cebu, Singapore, Rangoon, Calcutta, Hong Kong and Okinawa. In Rangoon 15,000 Burmese streamed aboard her. In Calcutta she hus tled food and medicine to a city ravaged by flood and cholera. Off Formosa, she plucked 41 seamen from a sinking Japanese freighter. But last week, back at Pearl Harbor, came the biggest thrill of all: the arrival of a penniless Okinawan, bound for the University of Hawaii with a full scholarship guaranteed by the McCain's men of good will...