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...Business School graduate ('36), prescribes the records for all nine stations. He even decides the order: Mantovani on early, when the audience is biggest; heavier music for the wee-hours elite; then progressively lighter as the milkmen switch on. Hall and the other deejays only announce the selections, rip and read the news, voice the commercials. Sometimes, when a big commercial plane crash is in the news, there is a moratorium on commercials...
Ordering the first six girls to lie on the floor, the intruder used his knife to rip strips from a bunk-bed sheet and from a cotton dress, then tied the girls up. Meanwhile, three other nurses who had been out late-Sue Farris, Mary Jordan and Gloria Davy-returned home before their 12:30 a.m. curfew, were surprised by the intruder, and were forced to join his bedroom captives. "There were some light outcries by the girls who came in late, but it wasn't much," said Miss Amurao. "He made them lie on the floor with...
...week's end Ky demonstrated another brand of toughness, which was welcomed by the U.S. Roaring inflation had threatened to rip the fabric of South Vietnamese society: food prices had risen 85% in 18 months, overall prices as much as 130%. Announcing a basic overhaul of the economy, Ky devalued the piastre by nearly half, loosened import restrictions to create more price-cutting competition, raised the salaries of military and government workers from 20% to 30%. They are the people who have been hardest hit by the inflation, and the people who matter most in the severe fighting...
...RIP TORN...
...Everything. After a rip-roaring campaign, Humphrey soon learned that filling the vice-presidency could be less exhilarating than running for it. He was depressed by the President's mordant musings over his mortality. "You be good to your Vice President," Johnson said to one reporter. "He could be your President tomorrow morning." After he had been in office a few days, Humphrey received a 2 a.m. call from the Secret Service informing him that Johnson had been taken to Bethesda Naval Hospital. Only an hour or so later did he learn that Johnson's trouble was merely...