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PEPSI-COLA'S UNICEF exhibition warms the heart of every little girl at the fair with a boat ride through a fantasy of Disney dolls. Hundreds and hundreds of them, dressed in saris and kilts, Lederhosen and grass skirts, they wink and blink, nod and grimace, dance and sing to a joyful hymn in praise of world understanding called It's a Small World...
...with new elections due early next year, five weak opposition parties last week summoned up their nerve and nominated a candidate to challenge Ayub. The nod went to Fatima Jinnah, sister and collaborator of Mohammed AH Jinnah, the late father of Pakistan independence. Razor-tongued and prickly (she once snubbed visiting Eleanor Roosevelt after a fancied slight), "Miss Jinnah" enjoys such personal prestige that probably no government could silence her-and she has been increasingly critical of Ayub. But she probably represents no great threat to Pakistan's soldier-chief; a political novice and around 70 years old, "Miss...
...British army barracks on Wellington Road to watch the regiment parade and "when the drums rolled and the brass shook the air, I could hear the saber clash, the hoofbeats, the rifle fire of The Dash for Khartoum, With Kitchener in the Soudan. My father would nod at us sagely and proudly. We belonged...
While the nation worried about the possibility of an auto strike, each of the three union bargainers assigned to the Big Three makers argued for the privilege of having his firm selected as the United Auto Workers' strike target. Finally, Walter Reuther gave the nod to Chrysler Corp., at the same time moving the strike deadline back to Sept. 9 so that there will be labor peace during President Johnson's Labor Day speech in Detroit. Following the divide-and-conquer technique that he has used so successfully in the past, Reuther hoped to pressure Chrysler into granting...
...were to make a dent in the growing Viet Cong strength. Four months ago, the wheels began turning. McNamara's recommendation was seconded by then-U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, thrashed over again in June at the high-level conference on Southeast Asia in Honolulu, got the nod from new Ambassador Maxwell Taylor shortly after he arrived in Saigon a month ago. In Washington fortnight ago, limousines carrying McNamara and Secretary of State Rusk rolled up at the White House, and moments later the pair-joined by National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy-sat down in the oval office...