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...assistance in the French struggle against Viet Minh insurgents. In the quarter-century since then, events have compelled cover treatment of the seemingly endless Indochina conflict no fewer than 64 times. Whether or not some sort of final resolution of war is at last at hand, the anonymous Vietnamese orphan on the cover of this week's issue seems an inescapably appropriate symbol of the military and political, but above all human drama that is the subject of the 14-page section on Indochina...
...seven church-related and other private U.S. adoption agencies in the country tried to speed the emigration process. A breakthrough came when Edward Daly, the bluff president of World Airways (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) arranged with the U.S.'s Friends of All Children agency in Saigon to fly 450 orphans to the U.S. Daly has long been a benefactor of Vietnamese orphanages and offered to pay for the flight himself. But Saigon-based officials of the U.S. Agency for International Development told Friends of All Children that Daly's DC-8 would be unsafe. On the shortest notice, Daly...
...complicated idea for solving the present financial problems. "Terrific! Why don't you send a note to the world's economists?" a colleague enthusiastically recommends. Says Alf, "Can't afford to-'til the price of paper comes down." One of the oldest comics, Little Orphan Annie, first drawn by Harold Gray in 1924, is also one of the most topical strips. Gray died in 1968; the strips that run today in 300 papers were all drawn by him during the Depression of the 1930s. "S'po sin' we are pretty hard up right...
...boring years in the Marine Corps, and now quietly despises his job administering driving tests for the California department of motor vehicles. The "twins" are Mac (Sally Kellerman), who is drifting around the country vaguely looking for a job singing country music, and Frisbee (Mackenzie Phillips), a teen-age orphan who is just plain drifting. Frisbee may not be as tough as she thinks she is, but she is definitely not as appealing as the people who made this movie seem to think she must...
They are hardly standard academic fare, even in the most freewheeling college: the barbecue as an American phenomenon; Little Orphan Annie and Daddy Warbucks as capitalists; All in the Family as Greek comedy. Yet these and other bizarre topics are often the subjects of class discussions, projects and papers at Ohio's Bowling Green State University, the home of the first and largest department of popular culture...