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...Democrat-Come-Lately John Lindsay last week stepped gingerly into the national political arena. In his first major foray outside New York City since he switched parties, Lindsay visited Phoenix, San Francisco and Los Angeles, sampling reaction and sending up trial balloons for a presidential campaign. The three-day junket removed any doubts that New York's mayor is aiming for the White House...
...even defeat by Joe Frazier has halted Muhammad All's interminable chatter. Upon his arrival in Lima, Peru, on his latest Latin American junket, Ali talked nonstop: "Most whites are bad, but I don't hate them. I just don't want to integrate with them." Was there anything he feared more than Frazier's fists? "I don't fear nothing. Oh no, I fear the tax collector more than anything else in the world." Muhammad, the former heavyweight champion, has good reason. Of the almost $30 million he has earned in the ring...
...Chinese-Soviet dispute. In an even harsher tone-the official Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap reported that Chinese Premier Chou En-lai would visit Albania, Yugoslavia and Rumania this fall. Since all three nations have asserted varying degrees of independence from Moscow, the Budapest paper warned that Chou's junket "has an anti-Soviet edge." For the first time, the paper also spoke of a "Tirana-Belgrade-Bucharest" axis...
...Gambling Junkets. Elsewhere in Asia, gambling is going legitimate so fast that Continental Consolidated Ltd., an American-dominated Hong Kong company that manages casinos in South Korea and Malaysia, is preparing a new kind of junket, a tour of the area's biggest gaming places. The Diners' Club in Singapore has even agreed to take tourists up to Genting Highlands and let them gamble on their credit cards...
...employs 20,000 of Davis' constituents, the Georgian voted yes for the SST. Republican John Thomas Myers of Indiana was an easy switch. "He wants to go to the air show in Paris," a party leader said, meaning that the House leadership could prevent Myers from making the junket. Arends worked a different vein. "Nixon wants this," he repeated to his colleagues. "It's a grand thing to do in the long run." Later he confessed: "Sure, we squeezed-the best...