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...French society. Only 5% of prominent French men and women came from what could be classified as the working class. Nor can the French worker reasonably hope that his offspring will inherit the chance for upward mobility that he was denied. For the vast majority of lower-class children, education ends at about 16, whereupon apprenticeship begins. Only 10% of French university students come from the working class, and many of those few fail to get through the maze of exams to the final degree so necessary for admission to the French Establishment...
...over North Viet Nam and Laos, filming huge patches- and tiny pockets- of jungled land, searching for the scantest signs of activity by Communist forces. Finding the infiltrating enemy has been a lot easier of late. "We are spotting convoys of more than 100 vehicles in Laos and the lower panhandle now," says one U.S. reconnaissance pilot. "It used to be that 10 to 15 trucks were a big catch." Now nearly every photo foray turns up new roads and fuel depots, fresh truck parks and antiaircraft gun sites...
Roar of the Antique. While their risks are lower on the ground, old-car fanciers yield nothing to the airplane addicts in their fervor for the old and authentic. Proof of their enthusiasm was the 20,000 who showed up last Sunday in Brookline, Mass., to preview Parke-Bernet's old-car auction of 65 antique and classic models. For antique collectors, brass is gold, since 1915 is the year when most designers stopped using brass as trim. Thus, when a bright yellow 1913 Mercer Raceabout, model 35-J, with a "monocle" windshield, restored by retired Los Angeles Fireman...
Both anti-Administration candidates, however, publicly placed a good deal of stock in the Oregon vote--even though Oregon lacked large black and lower-middle class elements of the Democratic coalition. After Kennedy lost, he hinted broadly that he would quit this year's campaign if he lost in California. Kennedy's defeat was especially poignant since it was the first loss of his dynastic family had sustained since his grandfather, former Boston Mayor John F. Fitzgerald lost a Senate race to Henry Cabot Lodge...
Johnson first brought up the subject of a lower voting age in a commencement speech at Texas Christian University on Wednesday...