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...Brinksmanship" by Ernest J. Wilson, one of two promising new writers on the Lampoon, contains clever characterizations of our favorite national heroes--Ike, McNamara, Rusk. The other rising light on the magazine is James T. Hill, who contributes a bizarre tale of a "former neo-Trotsktie" who goes "from Molotov to White House cocktails in one weekend with hardly a brainwash...
Died. Michael Popp, 62, Ike's Army tailor during World War II who, after the general complained about his bulky, hip-length officer's jacket, snipped out the natty, waist-length "Eisenhower jacket," which became the most popular bit of military wardrobe since the trench coat; of a heart attack; in Hamilton, Ohio...
...game is devoid of the breaks and flukes that make sports interesting. I think the score will be Green Bay 20, Oakland 10. But throw in a key interception by Grambling's Willie Brown and Ike Lassiter's recovery of a Mercein fumble and the final comes out, Oakland Raiders 23, The Pack...
Falling Sparrows. Unlike Ike, who set up military lines of command and delegated considerable responsibility, Johnson wants to be in on everything. His night reading, often a five-inch-thick stack of memos and cables, covers everything from the latest CIA intelligence roundup to a gossipy report on a feud between two Senators. Not a sparrow falls, says a former aide, that he doesn't know about...
...princess from Italy attended, and a countess from Germany, and a bonnie lass from Scotland with her own bagpiper. But the queen was Barbara Anne Eisenhower, 18, daughter of Ike's only son, retired Lieut. Colonel John Eisenhower, and Wife Barbara. The scene was the 13th Annual International Debutante Ball at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel, graced by 62 young ladies from 16 countries and 17 states and the District of Columbia. As usual, second-generation Republicans seemed to have a lock on the proceedings. Barbara Anne was escorted by her brother David's Amherst roommate...