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...skies shifted from acute to chronic. The glut that has all but congealed the New York City metropolitan area's "Bird Cage"-Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark airports-now spreads confusion across the country and abroad, shredding connecting schedules in Los Angeles and squeezing service in Miami. Fortnight ago, "Black Friday" choked the Golden Triangle between New York City, Chicago and Washington with 2,079 delays. Black Friday now is every day. The situation cannot possibly get better before it gets worse...
Absolute Tommyrot. All sorts of rumors of a new U.S. peace offensive over Viet Nam preceded the two-day Honolulu conference. Before leaving for a war tour a fortnight ago, Defense Secretary Clark Clifford gave many the impression that he might seek South Vietnamese approval for a full halt to U.S. bombing of the North. Assistant Secretary of State William Bundy hinted that a bombing pause would indeed be a key issue at Hawaii. Cyrus Vance, No. 2 man on the Paris negotiating team, emphasized the recent lull in fighting around Saigon, feeding speculation that it might prove...
...public and pushed hard by the press. The Observer, quickest to capitalize on "Chichysteria," announced a transatlantic sailboat solo race for this summer and attracted 35 oddly assorted entries. The winner of that tough grind was a young Cornish schoolteacher, Geoffrey Williams, who slipped into Newport, R.I., a fortnight ago after 26 days, 20 hours, and 32 minutes en route; others are still at sea. The competing Sunday Times sent four record-seeking Britons floundering by dogsled across mushy Arctic Ocean ice from Point Barrow, Alaska, to the Spitsbergen archipelago, some 2,100 crevasse-ridden miles distant; last week...
...Most congressional conservatives, who now hold power in the House, have said all along that Johnson could have his long-sought tax rise -provided, of course, that he reduced spending. The President, mindful of the needs of the cities and Viet Nam, was loath to do this. Finally, a fortnight ago, he agreed to a cut of $4 billion, enough to bring the 1968-69 budget down to $182.1 billion. More, he said, would create "chaos in government...
Some evidence against the stepping-stone argument came a fortnight ago from Giordano's own Bureau of Narcotics. The number of known hard-drug addicts, said Giordano, increased from 59,720 in 1966 to 62,045 at the end of 1967, or 3%. Moreover, the number of new addicts detected rose only from 6,047 to 6,417. If only one in a hundred of the potheads had switched to heroin last year, the increase would have been far greater...