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...Board of Economists, rates the temperature of the current recovery to be near normal, al though he notes that optimistic business men are scrambling to stock their shelves and supply bottlenecks are be ginning to show up. But the question remains whether the boom index will real ly be able to warn of a dangerously rising temperature before it is already too high to be cooled down...
Although some slow progress has been made by UNITA forces toward Teixeira de Sousa and Henrique de Carvalho (see map page 17), the military sit uation on the ground remained relative ly unchanged last week. Despite Soviet military aid and the help of 7,500 Cu bans, the M.P.L.A. holds only about a quarter of the country. But State De partment officials concede that Neto's leftist government has a big lead over the other two factions not only in fire power but in organization and experi ence. Assessing the three groups, one U.S. diplomat observes: "The M.P.L.A...
...intervening years have served to create a perhaps inevitable barrier between Thieu and the people he leads. These days, he rarely uses the Presidential Palace on Cong Ly Boulevard, which is barricaded from the rest of Saigon by sentry boxes, steel barriers and tangles of barbed wire. He moves behind a curtain of almost total secrecy, constantly switching locations between a series of private addresses within and outside the city. Since the attack on Ban Me Thuot on March 10, he has not appeared in public or even been photographed...
...Gerald Ford began an odd-couple relationship. TIME assigned Kennerly to cover Ford as a vice-presidential prospect. Kennerly virtually lived with the Fords at their Virginia home during the two months of the vice-presidential confirmation hearings. Later he traveled for eight months with Ford. Young Kenner-ly's irreverence and high lifestyle, which includes a Mercedes, a six-room Georgetown house, and an affinity for pretty women, richly entertained Ford, who came to regard him as an "adopted son." The day after he was sworn in as President, Ford asked Kennerly to be the official White House...
...ruling ushered in a generation of anguished testing and advances of the idea of equality. Yet in Topeka, Kans., in 1954, the parents of Linda Brown, an eleven-year-old black girl, had mere ly sought the right for her to attend a segregated white school in her own neighborhood, and the court upheld them. Since Brown, the complexities of desegregation have been transformed into the volatile issue of metropolitan busing. Opponents argue - on behalf of the neighborhood school - that children should not be forced to attend schools miles from their homes merely to achieve racial balance. In the same...