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...with the In. Virtually overnight, Lewis' fee has soared from $2,500 to $6,500 for a one-week club date. "I'm doing things I never dreamed I'd be doing." Things like buying a new ten-room town house on Chicago's South Side, a mink coat for his wife, a $5,000 Steinway, like enrolling three of his school-age children (he has five) in a private school. As a result, he is Out with the In jazz crowd, who accuse him of "going commercial." Lewis could not care less. "Apparently they identify...
Although pitched battles between major forces have lately seized the headlines, last week's bombing of the Metropole was a cruel reminder that the Viet Cong's campaign of sabotage and terrorism continues. For the last tabulated one-week period, in fact, Viet Cong incidents have soared to a new high of 1,038. They range from propaganda marches in provincial capitals, protesting U.S. air strikes, to last week's mining of the Danish freighter S.S. Kina, en route via canal from the sea to Saigon. The submerged mine blew a gaping hole in the Kina...
...Christ's sake, Tommy!" exploded Ev. "You said you'd give me your vote." A doublecross? "He just misunderstood me," said Dodd. "These things happen." As for promising committee action on the immigration bill, shrugged Dirksen, "that was just general conversation." In any case, Dirksen forced a one-week postponement of the immigration bill as a point of personal privilege, and Ev's allies talked darkly of demanding full-blown hearings that might well postpone reforms in the immigration law until next year. Dirksen was adamant. Said he: "If these young Turks think they can push...
...addict is really serious about racing, he can enter one of the 9,000 stock-car or 2,000 sports-car races held in the U.S. each year. For $1,000, he can even take a one-week course in competition driving from Racer-Designer (Ford-Cobra) Carroll Shelby. For the really successful racing driver, the rewards are great. Fred Lorenzen has already won $63,675 on the stock-car circuit this year, and A. J. Foyt, who is equally adept in stock cars, sports cars and Indianapolis roadsters, won $250,000 in 1964. Another field is that...
...Peace Corps reported this week that its recruiting drive at Harvard has produced about 20 per cent fewer applicants than did last year's drive. A total of 97 seniors and juniors took the Peace Corps Placement Test and submitted Volunteer Questionnaires during the Corps' one-week visit to Phillips Brooks House, while 125 did the last year...