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...promise to serve out his term without drifting off in pursuit of better things. Javits also made news later in the week, though for a different reason. Ever the politician, he accepted an accolade as "1966 Father of the Year,"* posed for pictures as Actress Eva Gabor pinned a ribbon betokening the award on his lapel...
...heart of Cholon's business activity is stretched along the Saigon River, a black, stagnant ribbon of water clogged with gaudy sampans and lined by crumbling warehouses. Into these godowns flows virtually all of Saigon's rice (Chinese control 90% of the nation's crop), and in the plush, air-conditioned clubs above Cholon's shops, coatless, tieless Chinese businessmen in bright Hawaiian sport shirts gather to chiao-chi-transact business in as pleasurable a manner as possible. In clubs such as the Chins Shan (Green Mountain) and Lo-t'ien (Happy Sky), the walls...
Since Cambodia's Sihanouk now offers the Reds active support, he is risking a widening of the war. If the Communist monsoon offensive is to be checked before the rains come, both trails must be severed-or at least heavily interdicted-before they join up in a ribbon of men and supplies that cannot be cut. Though there is no indication that the U.S. will cease to respect Sihanouk's phony neutrality, his policy inevitably carries with it the chance that more and more of the bullets of war will spill over into Cambodia itself...
...microscopic capsules containing one chemical; the copy sheet was coated on the front with another chemical. When the two pieces were inserted in a typewriter or Teletype machine, the force of the keys hitting the top sheet broke the capsules, releasing the chemicals they contained. While the typewriter ribbon supplied ink for letters on the top sheet, the combined chemicals made an inklike copy of the letter on the bottom sheet...
General Motors President Roche himself ended the six-hour hearings. After consulting with Theodore C. Sorensen, President Kennedy's onetime aide and Roche's blue-ribbon special counsel for the hearing, he returned to the witness chair to make a second apology. Said he, in a statement aimed as much at his own underlings as at the Senators or the public: "It will not be our policy in the future to undertake investigation of those who speak or write critically of our products...