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Whether in devastated wartime London or an overgrown jungle throbbing to the heart of the matter, the landscape of Graham Greene's novels is inexorably arid and sere. Yet in the midst of a life that is rather worse than purgatory and scarcely better than hell, his characters are touched by a vagrant grace. The Comedians, for which he wrote a script based on his novel, is Greeneland all over again, this time in Haiti. Off a ship and into the damned, doomed country walk three anonyms: Brown, Jones and Smith...
...nearly a month, the U.S. Army's famed 1st Infantry Division has been stalking an elusive quarry: the 271st Viet Cong Regiment, a hard-core Communist outfit that makes a specialty of terrorizing villages near "the Iron Triangle" northwest of Saigon. Last week, in the gloom of densely overgrown jungle trail 40 miles northwest of the capital, it was the 271st that found...
...slender -the boots can look devastatingly sexy. New York Fashion Plate Betsy Theodoracopulos, who wears her skirts four inches above the knee, says that she likes the high-rise boots because "they give my legs a sleek stocking look, and besides, without them I'd look like an overgrown teen-ager." On fatter legs, they often verge on the ludicrous. "Have you ever seen a bowlegged girl wearing them?" asks a Boston secretary. "They look like patent-leather parentheses...
...overgrown with nettles...
...seaside white chalet called Beaulieu, which has been put at his disposal free of charge by an Argentine industrialist. Within walking distance are luxurious bungalows housing a dozen other chiefs of state. The headquarters for the conference is the seven-story San Rafael Hotel, which looks like an overgrown Tudor mansion. The talks themselves will be held in the hotel's gambling casino, where some $30,000 is bet each night during the season on roulette and blackjack. Johnson hopes to place a far bigger bet on Latin America's ability to build and profit from a common...