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...mood to back down. When Newburgh's own welfare director admitted that he, too, thought the code illegal, Mitchell and the city council forced his resignation, appointed a more pliable acting commissioner, ordered a departmental shakeup. Mitchell denounced investigating state-welfare officials as "Gestapo agents," and fortnight ago he put his code into effect. Last week he carried his fight to Washington, and waded deep into the choppy waters of Republican politics...
...long had a vocal minority of unilateralists on the Left. In the atomic age, war to them seems senseless for any cause-even their own freedom-as is evidenced by their slogan, "I'd rather be Red than dead." Inevitably too, anti-German prejudice persists. In Swansea fortnight ago, 300 marchers demonstrated against the NATO plan to train West German Panzer units in Wales this fall. The real point-that the defense of Berlin is ultimately the defense of Britain-is only now beginning to dawn on the mass of Britons enjoying the summer...
...World War II -it is hard to understand how the East German border guards failed to spot lissome, 5-ft. 8-in. Marlene. The West had no such difficulty: she settled in Stuttgart, became a $53-a-week electronics engineer, entered a beauty contest and was elected Miss Germany. Fortnight ago in Miami Beach, Marlene was crowned the 1961 Miss Universe...
...rushed to South Viet Nam after the debacle in Laos, used the lull to train government troops in special new mobile tactics. Dozens of U.S. "Special Forces" operatives joined army units to demonstrate night operations, sneak attacks, better use of landing craft in the canals of the Mekong delta. Fortnight ago, reports filtered in that big Communist groups were moving south from Cambodia toward the marshes of the Plaine des Jones (Plain of the Reeds), 60 miles west of Saigon. The government forces were ready to try their new tactics...
...battle lines were drawn when the Journal's parent Curtis Publishing Co. bought part of the defunct Coronet's list of 2,325,903 subscribers. In an apparently pre-emptive move against what the Journal might do with such a list, McCall's fortnight ago, in full-page ads in major newspapers, proclaimed its intention to boost circulation to 8,000,000 by December, making it second only to the Reader's Digest (12,976,581) in the monthly magazine field. To lure advertisers, McCall's said it would charge them on the basis...