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However, Tom LaFarge's articles are clever and sometimes touching. He has an eye for the incisive detail that can paint an instant picture--a "jade-rimmed pince-nez," an "ivory ping-pong table" -- but sometimes he starts cataloguing trivia. With sparser details and stronger endings, his stories will be gems. Conn Nugent's revelation that Harvard football victories depress the economy is off-beat and has an angle--the sort of amusing fact-twisting that the Yale Record is more inclined to do, but very welcome in the Lampoon...
...seven-member international jury, representing six European nations, give the top nod to something beyond the pale look of art already seen. Argentina's Le Pare, 37, won the $3,225 grand international prize for his motorized op-skip-and-jump works, which bobble and bounce ping-pong balls behind eye-boggling Plexiglas screens. A nonplused, partisan pop dealer could only remark that Le Fare's art reminded him of "F.A.O. Schwarz on the 23rd of December." Le Pare was just as much amazed when he heard of his win, while lying on the beach in Venice...
...preserving the nation on the battlefields. For six days the reconnaissance helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division (airmobile) hummed over mountaintops, darted down the alleys of valleys, recklessly trying to draw fire-which would pinpoint an enemy in the elephant grass below. It was familiar terrain: the Chu Pong massif and Ia Drang valley in the western highlands near Cambodia, the "Valley of Death," where the division last fall had fought the bloodiest battle of the war. Chu Pong was a perfect place to hit the enemy off-balance as he prepared his campaigns for the coming monsoon...
...started missing performances of Take Me Along when it was coolly received by the critics. David decided that Gleason was malingering, ordered a private detective to sit detectably in a tree outside Gleason's house. After a few days of that, and a few weeks of verbal ping-pong in the press, Merrick cheerfully delivered the cruncher: he announced that since Lloyds of London had agreed to pay him $3,000 for every performance his star missed, Gleason was actually doing him a favor by staying home...
Road to Adventure. Laos, South Viet Nam, Thailand and Cambodia have al ready made a harmonious start at harnessing the Himalaya-fed Mekong. In addition to Nam Pong dam, five other power and irrigation projects costing $50.7 million are built or abuilding on Mekong tributaries. Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines forged another kind of economic tie two weeks ago by reviving the dormant Association for Southeast Asia, tentatively agreeing to cut cable rates, swap radio and TV shows, begin free trade in a few commodities. Headquarters for the $1 billion Asian Development Bank, aimed at financing such sinews as power...