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WHENEVER Mao Tse-tung, the 76-year-old leader of 750 million Chinese, slips from the public eye for any length of time, the world beyond his closed kingdom soon begins to buzz with rumors of his illness or even death. In late 1965 and early 1966, Mao faded from view for six months, only to reappear suddenly and launch his disruptive Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. This year the Chairman's last public appearance occurred in mid-May -more than four months ago-and speculation about his health has begun to mount once again...
...Support. To a great many observers, Vietnamization looks like an illusion, or worse. How, they asked, can the South Vietnamese after two decades of war successfully take on the military task that half a million American troops could not quite handle? U.S. officials reply that the Vietnamese, after all, are fighting in their own country, would still be backed up by American support troops, and may be psychologically braced by the feeling that they must finally stand on their own feet. The argument is far from convincing, but the U.S. has no choice at the moment but to give Vietnamization...
...Charles de Gaulle three months ago, his countrymen were ready for a good long vacation. Except for the jolt of the franc's devaluation, they got it. But as the schools reopened, as the Chamber of Deputies resumed business in earnest, as "the season" in Paris began, 50 million Frenchmen were suddenly confronted with the sad fact that, from now on, their country is likely to play in the world a role greatly diminished from the one they had been led to expect. Reports TIME Correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer...
...country meadow (actually part of their Kensington Palace gardens in downtown London), and there was a certain amount of tongue-in-cheek involved. Princess Margaret would soon be off to Tokyo to open British Week, a promotion-exposition aimed at persuading the Japanese to buy ?150 million worth of British goods next year...
Unfortunately, the brochure epitomizes the unfolding fate of unguarded land in Vermont-and much of the U.S. as well. If Whitingham Developer Clifford Jarvis sells 300 lots, he will recoup his initial investment of $1.5 million. He has a lot to do-building those covered bridges, for example, and draining a pond now full of beaver ("We'll have to kill them"). When his work is finished, says Jarvis, "I personally have no intention of staying in Vermont...