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...Khanh regime is eagerly awaiting Washington's latest boost-an additional $125 million in economic and military aid recommended fortnight ago by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Of the total, $70 million will go toward bailing out the war-bankrupted Vietnamese economy, $55 million toward raising the pay of soldiers and civilian government employees engaged directly in Khanh's badly lagging "pacification" campaign...
...week long, reports of new landings and new attacks poured out of Miami. Spokesmen for Manuel Artime's M.R.R., which destroyed a sugar mill fortnight ago, announced that they had gone in again to blow up six highway bridges inside Cuba-then admitted that this was untrue but promised that Castro would hear from them soon...
...school boards in Northern U.S. cities would use it to solves the deadlocked problems of de facto segregation. The Gary, Ind., board for example, concluded that it would not take any responsibility for desegregating its schools, and made its decision stick in the courts; the U.S. Supreme Court a fortnight ago turned down a chacne to hear the case. Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia are bogged down for reasons that range from white backlash to a school-board inertia. New York City's Board of Education hesitantly advanced and then igmoniniously cut back a proposal for big-scale pairing...
...tenth-floor corner office of Merrill Lynch's chairman, Michael W. McCarthy. He and Merrill Lynch's directors made a unique proposal to Devine's partners: Why not buy up a large chunk of Merrill Lynch's undistributed stock and join the company? After a fortnight of secret negotiations, the two houses agreed on Wall Street's biggest deal this year. Thirteen of the Devine partners anted up $8,000,000 and were taken into Merrill Lynch as a division...
...Pala plan's first fortnight, Rome was wondering whether it could possibly last. Other cities, including New York, have tried much the same measures, but they have usually foundered on the failure of the local patrolmen to enforce them (a $10 bill in the right hands from time to time works wonders in any town, in any country). Could the Roman cops-so much more noted for their ballet technique of directing traffic than for their enforcement of law-maintain the zeal that has them handing out more than 5,000 tickets a day? And how long would...