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...Hampshire's frozen Lake Winnipesaukee region, a tall, stiff-spined farmer in high laced boots stood before the Meredith Village Savings Bank one morning last week and shook his head slowly. "I've had so much information from so many candidates about what I should do," said 70-year-old Jesse L. Ambrose, "that my bucolic mind is utterly confused...
From the way he buttonholed passers-by on Saigon sidewalks, the pint-sized Vietnamese officer in green fatigues could have been Nelson Rockefeller campaigning in the New Hampshire primary. He shook hands, introduced himself, asked, "Have you any suggestions about how we can do a better job for Viet Nam?" The politician was none other than South Viet Nam's strongman of the hour, Major General Nguyen Khanh, 36. Almost desperately, he was striving for the support necessary to safeguard his successful military coup...
...none of the information that Ranger sent back has yet accounted for the failure of its TV cam eras. "We're still studying it," said Director William Pickering of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "I'm trying to leave the boys alone." Whatever the reason,the failure shook every branch of U.S. space bureaucracy. Detailed information about the moon's surface is desperately needed to guide the design of moon-landing vehicles. "We must have close-up pictures of the moon's surface," said one high space administrator. "We're not going to commit...
...Shrug. Biggest headache was France's recognition of Red China. The move had been well-advertised, but was no less nettlesome for it. De Gaulle shook off U.S. protests with a majestic shrug. "France," said he at a press conference, "is no more than recognizing the world as it is." To add insult to in jury, he took a poke at the 176-year-old U.S. Constitution, said it might be a flop anywhere outside the U.S. "Our constitution," he added by way of comparison, "is good. It has proved itself over five years in moments full of gravity...
...Paris, lone-wolf Couve called at the suite of lone-wolf Charles de Gaulle in the small, elegant Hotel Laperousse near the Etoile. He laconically recalls: "We discussed foreign policy a little to see where we stood." Then De Gaulle shook hands with his new Foreign Minister. Of that first Gaullist Cabinet, Couve de Murville is the only man to have remained in the same spot, very likely because he firmly believes France should be run by brilliant technicians administering the policy of a great President and not by a host of wrangling, multiparty politicians...