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Consider, then, this recent observation by Richard Nixon, a man not generally noted for his iconoclasms: "I know the job I have is supposed to be the most difficult job in the world. But it has not yet become for me that great, awesome burden that some have described it." His actions seem to support the words. The presidency has made a regular golfer of Nixon, who, as a private citizen, found golf "a waste of time." He has taken some evenings off this season to root for the Washington Senators, and will doubtless keep a number of his Sunday...
...week, "we have had to work very hard. Before, every man averaged 20 days a month on operations; now, they average 28. This means that men are on patrol, on search missions or night ambushes, almost every day." So far, there has been little combat-in keeping with the recent passivity of the enemy throughout South Viet Nam. But two North Vietnamese regiments (about 1,200 men) are reported to have infiltrated into the Delta since the G.I.s departed...
...despite the lack of happiness, he attained the pinnacles of grandeur, and endowed France with it to such a point that ever since our people have not resigned themselves to mediocrity and always answered the appeal to honor." Continued Pompidou, in an obvious reference to De Gaulle: "Our most recent history was a striking demonstration of this, once more thanks to the action of an exceptional...
Died. Robert Greenlease, 87, central figure in one of recent history's most spectacular kidnapings, who in 1953 paid $600,000 ransom for the return of his young son Bobby, only to learn that he had been brutally murdered before the ransom was delivered; of pneumonia; in Mission Hills, Kans...
...recent Administration task force "conservatively" estimated that at least 5,000,000 Americans have used marijuana at least once. Dr. Stanley Yolles, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, puts the total far higher: at least 12 million, and perhaps even 20 million. Pot is, of course, most widely used by the young. Yolles estimates that