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...coincidence some real McCoys showed up: Member of Parliament Winston Churchill, grandson of the great man, and his son Randolph made their appearance to watch the filming of a battle scene. Commented young Randolph during a lull in the sound effects: "I suppose they have run out of caps." . . . Halfway round the world, in Burbank, Calif., Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger took a brief vacation from his duties at the Western White House in San Clemente to visit another movie set with his children,* Elizabeth, 12, and David, 10. After watching Pop Singer Bobby Sherman filming a new TV series called...
...found itself trying to explain its way out of an embarrassing gaffe-caused by an American memo. Visiting Cairo, Columnist Joseph Kraft was told by Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad that Egypt had agreed to a written U.S. suggestion that Israel pull back from the canal to a line halfway across Sinai. The Egyptians would move to within 15 miles of the Israeli line, and a United Nations truce force would be set up between them...
...Diplomatic Reception Room, with a lavish buffet of smoked salmon, roast beef and shrimps in coconut (caviar and foie gras were eliminated for economy rea sons) spread in the State Dining Room not far from the multistoried cake. After an interval at the reception, Tricia will climb halfway up the red-carpeted grand stairs and toss her bouquet down to the attendants waiting below; if Tricia's aim is on, it probably will fall to Ed's 25-year-old sister Maizie, who will be a brides maid. Then, reversing the White House pattern of more than 100 years...
THERE are still important choices to be made about Viet Nam. The U.S. is halfway out of the war, and the further troop withdrawals that the President has announced will see us two-thirds of the way out by the end of this year. But it is still far from clear just how we are going to come the rest of the way out. Can we come all the way out? When? And do we come out in ways that make it possible to live with the result...
...Richard Nixon could not have foreseen this when, while campaigning in New Hampshire in March 1968, he said, "It is essential that we end this war, and end it quickly." That was more than three years ago and, as matters have turned out, the U.S. was then less than halfway through the war. We must try to stay astonished by this. President Nixon, in his present statements about Viet Nam, ought to put more stress on the sheer staggering length of the war, because so much else flows from that...