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...There are about 1,400,000 American high school students in poverty. Some number have the smart and the persistence to negotiate some college somewhere. We think it's about one-half--or 700,000. We have hold of a piddling 20,000 of these in Upward Bound from Guam to Maine. The distribution of these students is important. Some per cent of all poverty high school students live in each state. We try, not always successfully, to spend Upward Bound money roughly in proportion to those per cents...
CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10:30 p.m.). Highlights from Hope's holiday tour of military bases in Guam, Thailand, the Philippines and Viet Nam. Among Bob's troupers: Phyllis Diller, Vic Damone, Reita Faria (Miss World), and Les Brown and his Band of Renown...
...miles southeast of Bangkok. U.S. Air Force KC-135 jet tankers already fly from its 11,500-ft. runways, and Washington hopes that Thailand will soon approve the transfer to U-Tapao of the B-52 heavy bombers that now must make a 5,000-mile run from Guam to bomb in Viet Nam. Fearful of direct North Vietnamese retaliation, Thai officials are wary about granting such approval. "If the B-52 question were to arise," said Foreign Minister Thanat on a visit to Washington last week, "we would have to evaluate it in the light of our national interest...
...funneling forces over the border. Last week one battalion of the 26th Marine Regiment had been searching for infiltrating forces for two days, when the infiltrators suddenly turned up under cover of fog and attacked two Marine positions. To back up the Marines, B-52 bombers swarmed in from Guam for the second straight week and blasted the area around the zone...
...abroad some comic relief over the Christmas holidays, this time packing along Singer Anita Bryant, Professional Harpy Phyllis Diller. Go-Go Dancer Joey Heatherton, and the new Miss World, India's Reita Faria. While the plane refueled at Wake Island on the way to bases in the Philippines, Guam, Thailand and Viet Nam, Hope observed that Evangelist Billy Graham had just left Wake en route to Viet Nam and that New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman would be stopping over soon as he began his Christmas mission to the war zone. Cracked Hope: "That's the kind...