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...Government is gearing up programs that should make the Vietvet's return smoother than Witherspoon's. Project Transition, set up at Fort Knox by the Defense Department, is cooperating with industry to give vets training in everything from mathematics to data processing, and has already placed some Viet Nam veterans in jobs ranging from postal clerks to oil-company salesmen. President Johnson hopes to recruit Negro vets as ghetto schoolteachers, and a bill to that end is being drafted for presentation this year...
...million difference was made up mostly by sales from the U.S. to the so-called "London gold pool"-a free market that meets shortages to stabilize prices. While the U.S.'s action helped to hold the price at $35 an ounce, it further reduced the stocks at Fort Knox...
...Wild 90 Mailer, with Buzz Farbar and Mickey Knox-both of whom are real actors-pretend they have been holed up together for days. They yell at each other and chain-drink. The camera stays mostly on Mailer, who goes "Unhh! Unhh!" a lot while he is thinking up dirty words. People come and go. One is a prizefighter (José Torres) with a German shepherd. Norman has a protracted barking contest with the dog, and spars a round with Torres, demonstrating the killer-wombat style with which he has enlivened so many Manhattan parties. Toward the end, two broads...
Then there is SEXPOFF [Societe pour I'Exportation du Franc Franfais], a subversive movement to which all Amer icans in France automatically belong if they change francs into dollars, thereby reducing De Gaulle's ability to buy up Fort Knox. But sticklers over niceties now ponder whether those who reciprocate the nastiness of De Gaulle, whose character combines le Roi Soleil and De Lawd, are guilty of lese-majeste or sacrilege...
...smooth-talking senior vice president from Litton Industries with an accounting background and a Harvard Business School degree. Simon makes no bones about the reason for the change: he wants to expand his empire of subsidiaries and affiliates, which already includes McCall Corp., Hunt-Wesson Foods, Inc., Knox Glass Inc., Canada Dry Corp. and Crucible Steel Corp. of America. Says he: "Fabian has been largely an operating chief and has been damned good at that. But Hunt is getting more acquisition-minded, so we need a man whose primary orientation is finance...