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...attacks, including the rocketing of the U.S. hospital at Cam Ranh Bay, and allied intelligence warnings that Communist forces were readying a new "high point" for Sept. 2, the 24th anniversary of Ho Chi Minh's proclamation of Vietnamese independence. Explained a ranking Administration official: "We have to impress Hanoi with our staying power or they won't negotiate seriously...
...period of anticipation before Christmas-perhaps because of the familiar pressures that also accompany that season. Or it might not apply to ordinary people whose birthdays are not celebrated with the fuss that surrounds a man of fame. Still, the statistics that Phillips has gathered are convincing enough to impress the Russell Sage Foundation, which is oriented toward the social sciences; it has just given him an eleven-month grant for additional explorations of the vital buoyancy of optimism. Eventually he hopes to establish that anticipating significant events can help people to live longer, a finding that could lead...
...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.).* David Hemmings stars in Auto-Stop as a young man who goes on a hitchhiking trip across Europe to impress an older woman. Repeat...
...Hamelin could never hold a flute to the Rev. Bob Richards. At 43, the former Olympic pole-vault champ and Wheaties pitchman is jogging and biking 3,000 miles across the U.S. in a one-man campaign "to get Americans off their duffs," as he puts it, and impress upon them the need for health-giving exercise. Last week, having already swum the turbulent Colorado River and trotted across the Rocky Mountains, he was in Indiana, heading relentlessly eastward toward New York. "At every stop," says he, "I talk about America-about strength, courage, challenge, clean living, faith, the American...
Sophisticated Effort. Explaining the Administration's view, Mitchell said: "We have come to the firm conclusion that voting rights are no longer a regional issue. They are a national concern for every American which must be treated on a nationwide basis." His rationale failed to impress committee members, liberal Congressmen and the only other witness to testify last week, Clarence Mitchell of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...