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...peninsula with 1,000 police and 600 soldiers, who allowed only accredited newsmen and diplomats to pass roadblocks. Guards stood on rooftops with high-powered rifles and studied the surroundings through binoculars. Security agents monitored each of Punta del Este's 4,000 telephone lines for any hint of possible assassination plots...
Although Vorster obviously has no intention of scuttling apartheid overnight, the few changes he has made so far have given moderate South African whites the first hint of encouragement in nearly two decades of Nationalist Party rule. "The best that can be hoped for," notes Johannesburg's influential Financial Mail, "is that sufficient non-whites will respond to any relaxation of apartheid that is forthcoming to make the Nationalist Party feel it was worth making. The worst that can be feared is that the government's good intentions will be snubbed, encouraging South Africa to retreat into even...
...Bureau of Drug Abuse Control, which, with the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, recently co-sponsored seven regional conferences, discovered that the difficulty most often cited by students and educators alike was lack of communication: today's teenagers, rebelling against adult authority, turn off at the first hint of moralizing or preachment...
...Judy West, at Los Angeles' Red Roulette room, is a kind of Patti Page of the keyboard. Combining elegance and brash good humor, she bounces freely from Latin to folk, Hawaiian to Dixieland, but is most effective in numbers with a hint of country twang. An attractive divorcee, she has a large following among the men, to whom she plays as deftly as she plays the piano. She can be either nursemaid or sedup-tress, gauging her attack by "the different stages of drink." Says she: "If they're looking at me, I try to entertain. If they...
...General. It had taken Johnson 148 days to publicly remove the "Acting" from Katzenbach's title in 1965-and Ramsey was kept waiting precisely the same number of days. The President broke the news with that touch of coyness that has become almost a trademark. Having dropped a hint that the appointment might be forthcoming, he summoned newsmen to the White House the following day to watch him sign a document; Ramsey was standing at his shoulder. When one reporter asked if the document on the desk might be Clark's nomination, Johnson flashed a Cheshire grin, replied...