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...exports, proving himself quite a salesman while firmly denying that that was his mission. "Any country that can sell tea sets to Russians, export one million bedstead knobs in 1964 and persuade foreigners to buy water from Glasgow can be relied upon to sell anything," he commercialized at a luncheon. As New York's Senator Jacob Javits, a bit mixed up on titles, proclaimed: "He's a very relaxed monarch...
...Humphrey landed in Australia to spend two days before making the last stops of his 15-day journey in New Zealand, the Philippines-where President Ferdinand Marcos anticipated his arrival by asking his Congress to send 2,000 troops to South Viet Nam-and South Korea. At an official luncheon in Canberra, Harold Holt, Australia's new Prime Minister, gave him such a warm introduction that the tanned but tired traveler confessed: "You touched the favorite nerve cell in my body-namely, the talking cell." Whereupon the Vice President delivered yet another speech. He reassured his audience that, despite...
...Retire?" cried Actress Helen Hayes at a Manhattan Book and Author luncheon. "Never. I'll come back gratefully wagging my tail just as soon as someone offers me a good part that doesn't depress me." Helen already had the offer. Next day she reported that, at 65, she is beginning a new career as a repertory player with Manhattan's Association of Producing Artists-Phoenix troupe. "It has brought back the glow to my cheeks," raved Helen. "I'm thrilled at the prospect of the sort of plays that I love-plays of substance...
Last week O'Brien journeyed to Cambridge to exercise all three of these options. He arrived by train and was rushed off to a Faculty Club luncheon, thence to a taped interview for WHRB, and finally to Kirkland House where he spoke on "The United States and Africa...
...Quitniks." Fulbright's tactics have certainly encouraged the G.O.P. Says Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott in a speech planned for a Lincoln Day luncheon this week: "Today a tiny proportion of Americans counsel a 'quit-nik' policy. These quitniks have found their voice in a bloc of members of the Democratic Party. At this rate, President Johnson may have to sue his own party for nonsupport...