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...Marcos faces a host of problems...
After considerable experience on the other side of an interview, Martha Mitchell last week took over the guest co-host spot on Washington's midday talk show Panorama. Martha, liberally divesting herself of opinions, condemned streaking, praised Governor Wallace, attacked the nation's schools for being overly psychoanalytical, and deplored conditions in veterans' hospitals. In between, she conducted a few interviews, asking ex-Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas how she felt about the Red-scare smear campaign that Richard Nixon used to defeat her in 1950. Said Douglas: "I woke up the next morning a free person...
...Brisas, the social summit of Acapulco, Nancy and Henry Kissinger found a honeymoon refuge last week. Lazing by the shell-shaped pool or strolling in the tropical gardens of the estate lent to them by Mexican Pharmaceuticals Importer Eustaquio Escandon, the Kissingers' only argument was with their host's mean, green parrot that set up a racket every time Henry opened his mouth. Kissinger was resigned to the bird's preference for his bride. "That parrot can't be all bad," he said. Henry was not so tolerant of the 40-odd newsmen who were encamped...
...private enterprise. For the better part of 15 years, the two giant U.S. international airlines, Pan American and TWA, have been competing on roughly equal terms with a host of nationalized, subsidized foreign carriers ranging from Air France to Air India. But last week both Pan Am and TWA applied to the Civil Aeronautics Board for the first subsidies they themselves have received since the 1950s. In separate petitions, the two lines contended, in effect, that without federal help they will go broke combating two trends: a drop of about 5% in passenger traffic and, far more damaging, a breathtaking...
Whether these four small companies' efforts to produce an over-the-road electric car will succeed remains to be seen. In any case, their attempts will be closely watched. A host of large companies, including Otis Elevator, Westinghouse, several electric utilities and the big automakers, are waiting in the wings, ready to produce their own electric cars when-and if-a smaller pioneer proves that the market is there...