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...well enough to the Spartan regime that begins at 6:45 a.m. with a brisk run on a gravel road followed by hot and cold showers. Though neither an outstanding student nor athlete, he mixes well, and his public image is that of a healthy boy with a mop of hair that defies comb and brush. When it was suggested that he has a Beatle's haircut, His Royal Highness Charles Philip Arthur George, heir apparent to the British throne, grinned and said, "You mean the Beatles have a Prince Charles...
Vacationing in Jamaica's Montego Bay last week, Barry Goldwater and his top lieutenants engaged in what G.O.P. National Chairman Dean Burch described as "mopping-up operations." Many Republicans were wondering, however, just what was left to mop...
...loss to Princeton indicated; they proved that by beating Brown last weekend. They have depth (Bob Blackman is the only coach in the league to use three platoons). They get the tough part of their season over with early. If they can beat either Harvard or Yale, and then mop up the weaker teams on the way home, the Indians are going to be in the middle of the title race...
...Lyndon Johnson into transports of delight. After reluctantly escaping from his admirers, Johnson winked at aides, chortled and asked: "Now how was that for a crowd?" "Oh," replied a staffer, "pretty good." For a moment, Lyndon looked as though he had been smacked in the face with a wet mop. Then he realized that he was being joshed, and grinned more broadly than ever...
...Rubber tappers in one village spotted three invaders through the trees, captured them on the spot. Guided by locals, government helicopters and troops swarmed in, engaged the raiders in a series of running machine gun fights. By last week the government had killed 18, captured 47, was endeavoring to mop up an estimated 35 still at large. Of the 65 accounted for, a score or more were Malaysian traitors recruited in Malaya and trained on either Batam or Sumatra. Several were Malayan Chinese who left evidence that the threat to Malaysia comes not only from Indonesia. Captured with the guerrillas...