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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the peace talks began in May, the State Department established a separate communications channel with Paris and drew up the nation's most exclusive readership list. Once the final phase began about a month ago, Lyndon Johnson emphasized to Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Defense Secretary Clark Clifford that it was "a period of the utmost sensitivity," specifically instructed them to remain silent about developments. At that point, the minuscule distribution list for cable traffic from Paris and Saigon was trimmed even further. At the end, the club that had access to the cables included only five...
...Houston social psychologist, suggests that not owning a television set has become "a reverse status symbol. What these people are actually engaging in is a form of snobbery." Chaytor Mason, a psychologist at the University of Southern California, agrees and adds a few additional non-TV types to the list: "the high-button-shoes, who have refused to change over from radio," the "active personalities like Harriet Housewife, who have too much to do or can't sit still," and the across-the-board mavericks, who just have to be different...
...developing nations throughout the world, domestic car production is a foremost symbol of industrial coming-of-age. As a result, the list of auto-producing countries is lengthening, even if many of them make cars only under license with the major manufacturers in other nations. Such arrangements vary widely, from mere final assembly of a vehicle to the production of most parts locally. Manufacturers' labels are often misleading. The Nasr (Victory) sedans of the U.A.R., for example, are in fact Fiats assembled in Cairo. Some countries-for one, Red China, which makes passenger cars named Red Flag and Phoenix...
...Profile. On the basis of auto statistics and city directories, Polk computers can print out maps of cities marking the exact locations of affluence and poverty. Magazines interested in sending their more expensive mail into Buick, Oldsmobile and Cadillac homes, instead of secondhand Dodge Dart households, can rent the list from Polk. Or Polk can take care of the mail campaign altogether. It already ranks with Sears, Roebuck as one of the biggest customers of the U.S. mails. Last year Polk took care of a single 23-million-letter mailing for an automaker, a record for the company...
Lefty's Fury. Plimpton spends his nights talking over golf lore with other tour members and reads an extensive list of golf books, all of which only confuse him more but give the reader comic insights into this special form of sportsworld hysteria. There are tales about golfers attacked by rams on the course, golfers breaking their legs after mighty swings, distance records for balls rebounding off caddies' heads, and the inevitable stories about the golfer's rage. Some golfers knock themselves out in their anger at a missed shot. Some punish their clubs, threatening to drown...