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...surprising author of that cable was former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, the same Rusk of the hawkish eyeball that never blinked, the Buddha whose monotonously repeated mantra of justification seemingly never changed through the years of escalation. Contrary to his historic image, did he oppose the first loop in the endless spiral into Indochina? In an interview from his home in Athens, Ga., Rusk broke his long silence. He told TIME Correspondent Jess Cook that he had "no present recollection" of the cable, but "I might well have written...
...Chicago's Grant Park bandshell, Street Evangelist Arthur Blessitt last month warmed up a crowd of nearly 1,000 with a lusty Jesus cheer, then led them off on a parade through the Loop, gathering people as they went. "Chicago police, we love you!" they shouted to cops along the route. "Jesus loves you!" Blessitt also passed a box through the crowd, asking for a special contribution: drugs. The box came back filled with marijuana, pills and LSD; it was turned over to the flabbergasted cops. This month, Blessitt is really testing Jesus' power. He is in New York City...
...playing with a crude toy in the late 1920s, Duncan was not impressed: "It looked like nothing, like a potato on a string." So he devised a slip string that let the wooden "potato" spin, registered the name Yo-Yo and embarked on a high-power promotion campaign. Youngsters looped the loop to the tune of up to $7,000,000 annually in sales for Duncan. Although he made another fortune by manufacturing parking meters, Duncan's Yo-Yo firm was forced into bankruptcy after his retirement...
...away from home, and the demand for leisure-time projects can only increase. Not long ago, the Daily Union Democrat in the sleepy Sierra Nevada foothill town of Sonora, Calif., extended a note of sympathy: "Whenever there's an ecological lynching party, Boise Cascade comes out on the loop end of the rope...
...look at a place in the city," says Rakove. "The older suburbs are just like the city for them. They are settling way out, where the prices aren't so high and the schools are the best." He cites the example of Schaumburg, Ill., 25 miles from the Loop. Barely more than a pasture ten years ago, Schaumburg now numbers some 50,000 residents. Its 1980 population, he predicts, will...