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Such statistics have long led U.S. authorities in Saigon to pooh-pooh the idea of offshore routes as a major supply source for the Viet Cong. But when a 300-ton, steel-hulled freighter out of North Viet Nam's port of Haiphong was sunk by air bombardment last February in Vungro Bay (TIME, March 5), U.S. Navy advisers began reassessing things. The Vungro ship carried 100 tons of Viet Cong cargo, ranging from medical supplies to heavy artillery, and nobody knew how many other ships had made it in to the coast. With continued air interdiction...
Legaldygook. Such presumptuousness would appall other professions, and some lawyers pooh-pooh the whole idea. The average law review, scoffs Yale's iconoclastic Law Professor Fred Rodell, "sounds like a 33-r.p.m. disk played at 78," a cacophony of "turgid, legaldy-gooky garbage." Nonetheless, law reviews-most notably those published by Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Stanford and Yale-are more influential than ever. A law-review job shapes a man's entire later life. Usually tapped at the end of freshman year, recruits are chosen by the outgoing editorial staff purely on the basis...
Zanzibar's slide into the Communist camp has been watched with dismay but little action from Washington and London. Though the British publicly pooh-pooh the suggestion that tiny Zanzibar (pop. 315,000) is becoming an African Cuba, they alerted mainland East African governments to the danger of subversion. When the U.S. Ambassador to Kenya, William Attwood, chimed in with a similar warning that Zanzibar should be "a source of concern to Africans," the Revolutionary Council took umbrage. Last week it peremptorily demanded the removal of a $3,000,000 U.S. space-tracking station...
Roost No More. In other U.S. cities, many health authorities pooh-pooh the idea that pigeons are a common cause of illness. But downplaying the danger is a mistake. CN meningitis is increasing in Chicago, and one suburban doctor has had five cases this year...
...response: 10,000 letters, postcards and telegrams, about 8,000 approving his speech and 2,000 denouncing it. Sample denunciations: > "Who translated your recent speech from Russian into English?" - "You seem to condemn those that point out that the Jews control every country in the world." > "And pooh-pooh to you, too-you Socialist...