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...purely military terms, that may be too gloomy an assessment. For one thing, no show of Communist strength in Cambodia can gainsay the enormous hauls of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese weapons and other supplies that allied troops have uncovered in the sanctuary areas. Moreover, while U.S. troops will be coming out of Cambodia, the South Vietnamese are firmly determined to keep the sanctuaries free of Communist troops and supplies no matter who is in power in Phnom-Penh. As long as they succeed, U.S. military advisers seem unworried over Cambodia's eventual fate...
...relief since he pushed through a $1 billion 1967 tax increase?up 25% over the previous year?whose provisions hit middle-income brackets hardest. He claimed that the additional funds were necessary to pay for the prodigal spending of his predecessor, Pat Brown, but no amount of apologizing could gainsay the fact that he had run on a pledge to keep the cost of government down. Instead, it has gone steadily up; next year's spending will increase 3.9% to $6.2 billion (though the budget will be smaller than that of less populous New York...
...Vatican." An editorial in the Tablet, Britain's leading Catholic weekly, complained about L'Osservatore's myopic coverage of the debate over birth control. "It is doing a great disservice to truth and to the health of the church," said the Tablet, "to ignore or gainsay this controversy, or, even worse, to convey the opposite impression that all is well...
...seldom buys from anybody else. More important, he improves with age; each Valentino collection strikes fashion editors as better than the last. When he showed his spring and summer clothes in Rome this winter, he declared them "the best I've ever done" and nobody in attendance would gainsay the king of Rome. Cried Vogue: "He has become the idol of the young, a new symbol of modern luxury...
...would gainsay William F. Buckley Jr., entertainer, court jester of conservatism. His regrettable ineffectualness as socio-political philosopher-activist is traceable and proportionate to an unconcealed intellectual narcism. Buckley's a mental muscle-beacher who can't resist rippling his grey matter to dazzle bystanders. For sheer sophistic jabberwocky and an excruciating reciprocity of cleverness Buckley's ideal Firing Line partner would be Marshall McLuhan. But stack him against self-educated Dockhand Eric Hoffer, the man of passionately simple convictions, and Buckley would do a fast fade from brilliance. Because he evinces about as much commitment...