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...opportunity to demonstrate the command of world affairs that he has gleaned on twelve trips abroad since 1961. Before minisuited Chris Noel, the G.I.s' disk jockey in Viet Nam (TIME, Nov. 25), could even flutter her eyelashes, Yorty turned to a map of Southeast Asia and launched into Poli. Sci. 101, touching on the Ho Chi Minh trail, North and South Viet Nam, the Viet Cong, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand. His prescription for ending the war: escalation...
...Wheaties & Rolls. The ace of aces was Norman Manley, a long-hitting four-handicapper from Inglewood, Calif., who scored three in a month-all on par-four holes, of 330, 330 and 290 yds. Then there was Harry Poli, 56, who plays with a putter exclusively and holed out his 150-yd. tee shot last June at the Salem, Mass., Municipal Golf Course. At Mission Hills Golf Club in Northbrook, Ill., members are still shaking their heads over the golfer who topped his drive on the 15th tee and rolled it into the cup, 175 yds. away...
...also taught marketing at the University of Chicago, Peterson was a vice president of McCann-Erickson by 27, moved to Bell & Howell as executive v.p. in 1958. He originated its series of TV documentaries on such contro versial subjects as integration, and is an omnivorous reader on topics from poli tics to psychology. His chief problems today are to pull together Bell & Howell's extensive recent acquisitions in electronics and business equipment, and to reverse a two-year downtrend in profits. Already, third-quarter earnings are up 20% from last year...
...rely heavily on "respectful disagreement"-tantalizing the professor who pines for ardent student protest. Really daring grade grubbers go much farther. "If his poli-sci prof is an outspoken liberal," says one Yaleman, "the imaginative con man adopts a fascist interpretation in his classwork. Since most profs like to compare themselves to Voltaire, they will give the Jittie fascist every benefit of the doubt...
When he dons the sash of office Oct. 12, Illía promises an Argentina-first policy, renegotiating the contro versial foreign oil contracts made by Frondizi (see WORLD BUSINESS) and re-examining Argentina's monetary poli cies, now closely hewing to the austere line of the International Monetary Fund...