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...trouble with the grandiose is that it commonly neglects day-today housekeeping. Over the past year this has proved overwhelmingly true of De Gaulle's personal dominance of the state. While De Gaulle was off on a junket to Rumania French students last May burst into insurrection against the retrograde bureaucracy of the universities. The revolt gained ominous momentum when the labor unions, restive at static wages and rising prices, joined the students. It seemed, during those weeks of the barricades, that De Gaulle might be deposed while absent from the country. In settling the insurrection and the general...
...slow boat to Houston last year for the Ryder Cup matches rather than fly, thereby eliminating himself from several tournaments that took place while he was at sea, including the one with the richest first prize of all, the $55,000 Alcan. Singer Jack Landron passed up a free junket to Finland, which he won on TV's Dating Game, because he refused to fly. While designing the capital city of Brasilia, Architect Oscar Niemeyer regularly drove the 575 miles overland from Rio de Janeiro rather than take a1½-hour flight...
...State Department, reaction was less dramatic but still pointedly directed against Soviet actions in Czechoslovakia. A seven-week tour of the U.S.S.R. by the University of Minnesota symphonic band was canceled. So was a special Aeroflot junket of Russian VIPs to New York to promote the new Moscow-New York flights (though the regular Aeroflot and Pan Am flights will continue). Finally, at week's end, the State Department halted a cultural-exchange program with Poland, and announced that further moves were under consideration. A cultural program with Rumania-the only Warsaw Pact nation that did not join...
Breaking Backs. The teachers insist that they are technically not striking, which they are forbidden to do by Florida law. Instead they have resigned-a maneuver that happens to violate the terms of their contract. At midweek, Kirk abandoned a politicking junket in the West, flew home to try to resolve the crisis. His first effort-a pleading back-to-work speech addressed to teachers assembled in Miami's Marine Stadium-ended in failure. Irked by the crowd's hostility, Kirk urged them to "get together with one good rousing boo" for the Governor-and drew only...
...hopping 22,600 miles to nine African capitals in eleven days is a junket to curdle the courage of the strong. But Hubert H. Humphrey possesses a special brand of fortitude. Last week, as his vice-presidential safari winged wearily across Africa from mishap to minor disaster, the indefatigable Humphrey averaged less than four hours' sleep a night and, seemingly impervious to a steam-heated climate, came up triumphantly talking at each stop. Africans heard his voice even as he flew overhead in Air Force Two. To soothe nations miffed because they were left out of his tour, Humphrey...