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Though Lyndon Johnson was hopeful that the worst of the crisis was over-and in fact took off for a tumultuous visit to Mexico City in order to demonstrate his detachment-Washington was taking no chances. In a carefully worded, 15-page "working paper," White House and State Department experts listed a number of possibilities ranging in outlook from high optimism to bone-deep pessimism. The least acceptable contingency was the prospect of a neutralist regime in Saigon that would either demand outright U.S. withdrawal or impose such humiliating restrictions as to make a pullout unavoidable...
...like to go somewhere," clarioned American Airlines' full-page ads, "we'll pay half your fare." Since American's President Marion Sadler launched that youth-fare plan three months ago, eight other U.S. airlines have reluctantly followed suit, and more than 300,000 kids (12 to 22) have bought the $3 I.D. cards that allow them to fly anywhere in the U.S., on a stand-by basis, at half the normal fare. Now some of the carriers want to tell the kids where to get off. Last week, arguing that the plan had brought only "ill will...
Most seniors apply early in the year, then wait with dramatic desolati "My fate depends on a couple of people sitting in an office 2,000 miles away," says a Yale senior. Vanderbilt Senior Robert Thiel worked three days on his application to Yale, including a five-page essay and translation of a long English paragraph into German and French, got a one-sentence rejection. He spent five hours on his Stanford application, got a two-paragraph form rejection. It took him only 15 minutes to apply to the University of Virginia, where he was accepted...
While Harold Robbins (The Carpetbaggers) was writing The Adventurers, Leon Shimkin, his publisher, took a peek at a half-finished page and asked what happened next. "I don't know," replied Robbins. "The damned typewriter broke. I'm waiting for a guy to fix it." Fixing the typewriter was Robbins' second mistake; the first was writing the book...
...republic where the peasants are revolting and their leaders disgusting. In the end, the book sinks of its own weight (2 Ibs. 2 oz.) and its excesses: four-letter words that are stuck everywhere like flies on flypaper and clichés that lie in clutches on practically every page ("El presidente's face went white with anger . . . 'I have had men shot for saying less!' "). Readers who like to spot the fictional distortions of real-life people in Robbins' books (Howard Hughes and Jean Harlow in The Carpetbaggers) will have no trouble identifying lightly veiled...