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...overcome an alarming tendency to apply totally different standards to Communist and American actions. President Johnson warned against interpreting the bombing curtailment as a sign of weakness, but U.S. officials immediately called North Vietnam's acceptance of Paris a retreat. U.S. military men justify new military sweeps--the largest of the war--on the grounds that they're defensive, but Dean Rusk warns that any comparable Communist escalation will jeopardize peace talks...
...eyes on the Northwest Arkansas Times (circ. 14,825) of Fayetteville. The daily has been in Senator J. William Fulbright's family since 1913; last week it became Lord Thomson's latest U.S. acquisition. It brought the total of Thomson papers in the U.S. to 56-the largest U.S. chain...
Thus last week was born a new Chris tian denomination. Product of the largest merger, in terms of total numbers involved, in the entire history of American Protestantism, the new body has a combined membership of slightly more than 11 million (10.3 million Methodists and 745,000 United Brethren). It thus becomes the U.S.'s second largest Protestant body, outnumbered only by the Southern Baptist Convention...
...once-moribund development is losing its scars under the bold doctoring of Los Angeles-based R. A. Watt Co. Inc., a Boise Cascade Corp. subsidiary that ranks among the nation's five largest residential builders. Since taking over the place a year ago, Watt has renamed it New Bellehurst, refurbished many of its wrecked houses, redesigned others, sold 116 homes for $4,500,000. Having risked $21 million to buy the property out of receivership, Watt expects to wind up in a few years with a tidy profit and a stylish $48 million community of 2,000 homes...
According to John L. White, GSA secretary, the 286 vote is the largest in GSA history...