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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officer. During the first six months of 1969, said the Pentagon, some 100,000 North Vietnamese troops joined enemy units in the South, more than replacing the 94,000 Communists killed during the same period. The Pentagon refused to release the figures for July and August, which reportedly show a 50% decrease in Southbound troop movements. It did note, however, that even so dramatic a decline could be explained by record monsoons in Laos, which have turned the infiltration routes of the Ho Chi Minh Trail into nearly impassable quagmires...
Bernadette, whose visit is sponsored by the National Association for Irish Justice, hopes to raise $1,000,000 in donations, to be shared equally by Protestant and Catholic refugees in Ulster. Her lilting brogue was heard on NBC's Today show, over dozens of radio stations, and in auditoriums and salons from New York to Los Angeles. She appeared in such odd corners as Garden City, L.I., where Nassau County Executive Eugene Nickerson-the grandson of an Anglican clergyman-hailed her as the "happy crusader," and tacky Gaelic Park, a sometimes Irish hurling field in The Bronx, where...
...advance planning and cash-flow charts as dreamy idealism. Since last spring, the mythful mentalities of young Americans have made Elder Brother Tommy, 32, into a kind of Che of the TV jungle, or a Malibu Marcuse. In speech after speech, he has pluckily insisted that "the Smothers Brothers show may never go on again, but we have to keep the issue alive -and I mean free speech...
...still intends to aim his show at "the young, the disaffected and the minority groups," but he has added another group: "Big business." Or, in other words, "not just the havenots, but also the haves who have something to say." Along these more practical lines, the Smotherses have also reorganized their production company. The trouble with the old company, says Tommy, is that "all our beautiful intentions didn't have a solid foundation of financial logic and production schedules behind them. We had all those long-haired creative types walking around, but none of those smart cats in brown...
Divorced. By Loretta Young, 56, doe-eyed veteran movie and TV actress (The Loretta Young Show): Thomas H. Lewis, 65, retired ad executive and radio producer; on grounds of mental cruelty and desertion (they have been separated since 1956); after 29 years of marriage, three children; in Los Angeles...