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...Year of the Goat* amid an international flurry of peace talk, neither noise nor nostrums seemed to have much effect on the true devils of the South: the Viet Cong and their North Vietnamese allies. During the four-day Tet truce, the Reds who were not fighting doubtless paid heed to the Liberation radio's directions about how to celebrate the festival: "Organize collective entertainment-including bayoneting the effigies of Americans, Thieu and Ky." But despite their own announcement of a seven-day truce (the U.S. and South Viet Nam agreed to only four days), a lot kept right...
...cafe, dressed as a bit of a dandy, even hankered after, and got, that ultimate mark of bourgeois respectability, the Legion d'honneur. -Manet's approach to painting was to become so embued with and immersed in life that he could safely detach himself from it to heed the higher imperatives of his own particular way of seeing. He served life in order to better serve...
...thing is embarrassing," Fort Worth's top police announced a new policy: lie-detector tests for any suspect who requests one. Texas Attorney General Waggoner Carr suggested that the same policy may be advisable throughout the state. Amid all the good intentions, though, no one paid much heed to the hazards, notably the possibility of testing error and the fact that from now on, police may well assume the guilt of suspects who refuse the tests...
...government still hopes to convince Thant that he is the "indispensable man" and that he should stay on for at least part of his term. "The U.N. needs him," Ambassador Goldberg told the General Assembly in his opening speech. "We reiterate our earnest hope that he will heed the unanimous vote of the membership and permit his tenure of office to be extended." Officials apparently believe that Thant can be persuaded to serve if the U.S. and Russia are unable to agree on a successor...
...manpower training policies or on-the-job experience. These programs of human investment will require immense resources from all levels of government, from employers, and not least from the Negro families themselves. In addition, the gates of opportunity must be opened all the way. Both companies and unions should heed Whitney Young's call to actively seek out Negro job candidates. In the case of the white collar job ladder, equality in education and employer cooperation are the key elements. But in the case of the equally important blue collar job ladder, it is the union movement which must carry...