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...solemn morning in Ravenna, Ohio, last week, a small group of onlookers and newsmen gathered behind the Portage County courthouse to watch Mrs. Lucy DeLeone, clerk of the courts, put the match to one of the most controversial documents in recent U.S. history. She burned an 18-page document released by a special Ohio grand jury last year that absolved the National Guard of any responsibility in the slaying of four Kent State students. The grand jury indicted 24 youths and one professor on state riot charges...
...some time, South Viet Nam's Economics Minister Pham Kim Ngoc has been telling newsmen: "Phase I of Vietnamization, the military phase, has been successful. Now we will enter on Phase II, which will concentrate on making Viet Nam self-reliant and stable." Last week, South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu launched that program with a crisp 40-minute speech to the Saigon legislature...
...opening. Democratic National Chairman Larry O'Brien attacked Butz as "one of the chief architects of the Benson policies that forced hundreds of thousands of farmers off the land." Yet Butz served notice that he intends to fight for farm interests. Shortly after Nixon introduced him to newsmen, he turned to Hardin and said pointedly: "The price of corn is too low for comfort, Mr. Secretary -it's below the cost level...
Precise 15°/. The Chinese delegation, accompanied by two newsmen and 40 clerks, assistants, typists and chefs, moved into Manhattan in style. They rented chauffeur-driven Cadillacs to get around town (at $12 an hour) and took over the entire 72-room 14th floor of the Roosevelt Hotel-except for one room occupied for 25 years by an elderly widow who refused to move out. The midtown pad cost the People's Republic at least $2,160 per night. The hotel responded nimbly to every request from the Chinese. Color television sets and hot plates were added to every...
Everywhere the Chinese appeared there was a horde of paparazzi-like newsmen. Reporters peered over the delegates' shoulders as they breakfasted on omelets and lunched on breast of chicken. They even checked the luncheon tips with waitresses (a precise 15%). After paying their first breakfast tab with a $100 bill, the Chinese began signing for everything. Through it all, the delegates managed resigned smiles and noncommittal answers. One mission member, noting the crowd of newsmen, said to TIME'S Mandarin-speaking David Aikman: "You can't avoid them...