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...They-and We-Fight Sir: Of all the reasons given for the successes of the Viet Cong in South Viet Nam [Aug. 25], none was so important as the statement of the U.S. official that "Viet Nam's traditional society doesn't offer much in the way of opportunity...
...know more about the to pography of the moon than about the earth's topography," said British Astronomer Zdeněk Kopal. None of the other 1,000 astronomers gathered in Prague last week for the 13th meet ing of the International Astronomical Union disputed him. They had just seen giant new U.S. and Russian charts of the moon's hidden farside. Together with familiar maps of the lunar near side, the charts did indeed give man a clearer view of the moon's features than of the earth's surface, large portions of which...
Mystic Cult. With the Beatles cutting out personal appearances and thus needing him less and less, Epstein built up a management agency for other big-beat talent. He bought a West End theater and produced such works as James Baldwin's Amen Corner. He also made a none too impressive debut as host of a five-minute segment of NBC's Hullabaloo TV series...
...entrenched, long autonomous European chieftains took some winning over when Geneen went to Brussels to meet them. "I talked to them for hours," recalls Geneen, "but none of them said anything. So I asked why. The answer was that years ago somebody talked and got fired." At dinner with one European executive, Jean Bourgeois, Geneen made it clear that he expected his people to start talking. Says Bourgeois: "I was drawing diagrams all over the tablecloth for an hour. He just kept on asking questions...
...good thing for most of the world's female swimmers that the 1968 Olympics were not held last week. Not that another year of competition is likely to make has-beens out of four U.S. schoolgirls-none of them over 17-who last week put on the most remarkable display of record smashing in the history of the Women's A.A.U. Swimming Championships. In four days at Philadelphia's Kelly Pool, nine world and 13 American records were demolished, and U.S. aquatic status soared to suzerain heights...