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Edmund Sixtus Muskie (Muskie of Maine! trumpeted the ads and leaflets) was seated in the first pew. He quietly got up, went up to the Communion rail and returned to his seat before anybody moved...
Died. J. Howard Pew, 89, publicity-shy patriarch of the powerful Philadelphia family that controls Sun Oil and chairman of that company's executive committee; in Ardmore, Pa. He took over the firm in 1912, when he succeeded his father, Sunoco Founder Joseph N. Pew, as president. Though for a time a supporter of the John Birch Society, his penchant for privacy made him one of the nation's least-known industrial giants...
...ritual is simple: a walk to the village church containing the family pew, to the grave site, to the walled estate of La Boisserie, where De Gaulle's widow Yvonne still lives in virtual seclusion, and then back to the town. There old, nearly empty restaurants have suddenly become packed and new restaurants are springing up, along with hotels. Colombey's streets have been repaved, there is a new post office to handle demands for a special anniversary stamp, and a 1,200-car parking lot is being built...
Waiting List. There is some truth to Pew's complaint. Compared with their World War II and Korean War counterparts, Viet Nam veterans are unheralded, even unwanted. On the average younger and less skilled, they are returning to look for work in one of the toughest job situations seen in their lifetime. Yet veterans' benefits, the traditional bootstrap up when all else has failed, are woefully inadequate compared with other years. The G.I. Bill for Education, for example, once provided for full tuition, plus $75 monthly for expenses. Now it pays but $175 a month, hardly enough...
...plight are multiple, beginning with public apathy toward the Viet Nam vet. Much of the war's unpopularity has been unjustly transferred to the men who are fighting it. Never has the U.S. serviceman met with such indifference, even hostility. He is back, but who cares? Says Pew: "When a young man comes home from so-called fighting for his country and then looks to his country for help, and nobody gives, you know, nobody cares, it's just weird...