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...Gramont sees it, the times were not so much ripe for revolution as overripe with monarchy. Louis XVI was so far out of touch with the changing political style that he did not even suspect a dangerous parallel when he saw one-the American Revolution. While Marie Antoinette gushed about "our good republicans, our good Americans," Louis, it is said, made a gift of a Sevres chamber pot with Benjamin Franklin's likeness on the base...
...captured enemy documents of recent months are even more explicit in revealing the Communist strategy, and give some remarkable insights into the tunnel vision with which Hanoi views the U.S. and the course of the conflict in South Viet Nam. One says that "the time is ripe for implementation of a general uprising to take over powers in South Viet Nam. The masses are ready for action." The reasons: "Deteriorating morale in the U.S., the conflict between American and 'puppet' authorities, the unpopularity of G-xon (Viet Congese for Johnson) and friction between 'doves' and 'hawks...
Time was when a woman expected to wait until ripe middle age before she was presented with a mink coat-if she got one at all. "Today," says Sam Mellon, manager of Chicago's Evans Furs, "they're buying them at 19 or 20." One of the reasons is that mink coats, formerly the badge of the successful matron (or mistress), have succumbed to the youth-oriented trend in fashion. Coats are now short, shaped to the body and sometimes come pieced together to create checks, stripes and herringbone patterns...
...many as 14 parties of wildly incompatible political persuasions. The result in some states was chaos, in others instability. Taking advantage of this situation, the Congress Party in the past two weeks has overturned or suppressed the new governments of three states, and is looking on three others as ripe for takeover...
...SEAWAYS & AIRWAYS. Ripe for reduction is the $600 million yearly subsidy to the aged, ailing merchant marine. A presidential task force recommended a two-thirds slash over a long-term period, but so far the powerful U.S. shipbuilding lobby has blocked the plan. In the air, the $54 million subsidy to regional airlines could be brought down much further because efficient small jets have bolstered the profits of the little lines...