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...being run loosely," wrote the New York Daily News's Washington Bureau Chief Ted Lewis. "It is no secret that the so-called 'Kennedy system' -actually no system at all but a hodgepodge of advisers-has made for presidential vacillation." But Lewis clung to a shred of hope: "Whether the President has muffed the ball in failing to make use of the leadership qualities with which he is endowed is still open to argument...
...important information about it. No one knows whether it has a magnetic field, or even whether it rotates on its axis. Its surface may be hot, dusty and stirred by terrific winds; it may be covered by a single deep ocean, perhaps made of petroleum instead of water. Any shred of information about the mystery planet will be treasured as a jewel by astronomers...
...first step toward a political solution was to stop the Russian airlifts. The one shred of legality to which the Russians cling is that the supplies were requested by the neutralist government of Premier Souvanna Phouma, who was put in power by Kong Le and is still recognized by the Russians, though he is now surf-bathing in comfortable exile in Cambodia. To end this charade, the U.S. flew National Assembly members to Vientiane from all over Laos last week to vote the Boun Oum government into office. All 41 legislators voted approval (the rest of the 59-man Assembly...
After a three-month search in the Hi malayas for the Abominable Snowman, New Zealand's famed Mountaineer Sir Edmund HiHary descended into Nepal with only one furry shred of evidence that the Snowman has any more substance than Santa Claus. Sir Edmund's trophy: a scalp that Himalayan natives, who have treasured it as a good-luck hairpiece for some 250 years, believe to be a genuine yeti remain. To get the scalp, Hillary had to do some sharp bargaining with local witch doctors, who feared that disaster might strike if the scalp were taken from their...
...watch his passage and hear his speeches are, in the day, mostly mothers and children, retired folk and the unemployed. Most of the men are at work. Often the cheers are loud, but then one notices a swarm of young boys yelling or adolescent girls swooning. It was a shred man who manufactured the buttons reading "If I were 21, I'd vote for Kennedy." Of course, many people whom the law defines as mature also lend their voices to the emotional outburst, as if Kennedy were a film star, not a candidate for solemn high office...