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President Johnson steadfastly refused to discuss the ceasefire, insisting that any comment should come from U.S. military men in Saigon. There was no letup in the Communists' verbal war. Peking continued to denounce the U.S. for defending South Viet Nam and heaped scorn on the President's repeated offers of unconditional negotiations. "They will be buried in the sea of a people's war," ranted Hsinhua, Red China's official press agency. "Neither 'unconditional discussions' nor 'suspension of bombing' can deceive the South Vietnamese or other people...
...Perspectives. The new designs use ingenuity to do what bones and girdling could not. They scorn the plain nude look. Instead, they are finding new ways to make their revelations. For the healthy inside look, both Cole and Stewart have contrived necklines that plunge full and wide. Rudi Gernreich, whose topless suit provided the industry with welcome publicity but negligible sales, has engineered the "bib" suit, which comes loosely up over the middle of the bosom, but leaves the outer reaches marginally exposed, offering a new perspective to the girl watcher who prefers to sneak a sidelong glance rather than...
...temperament and experience to be a political troubleshooter, Bundy nonetheless proved a valuable link between the worlds of intellect and action. His most notable public service to the Johnson Administration occurred last summer during the early campus-based protests against U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Applying a scathingly articulate scorn honed by years of campus oneupmanship, Bundy met the critics on their own ground. "I think many of them have been wrong in earlier moments of stress and danger," he declared. "I think many of them misunderstand the hard realities of this dangerous world...
...assiduously courted the cerebral community and has shown almost childlike gratitude when it responds to his wooing-as when he gave Merrick a souvenir pen and thanked him for his rebuke to Miller. But for all that, much of the intellectual world still regards him with hostility and even scorn...
Herman the Hormone. As a careerist who rose from the lowest echelons of the service to become U.S. Ambassador to Mali, Senegal, and finally Mauritania, Villard reserves his greatest scorn for the political appointee, the "manufacturer of kazoos from Peoria," who gets the choicest embassies for the fattest campaign contributions...