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Johnson has traveled widely, but the image he always projected was of a hearty backslapper who stopped to chat with a sidewalk watermelon vendor in Beirut, who invited a Pakistani camel driver to "come and see us, heah?" and who gave out ballpoint pens wherever he went. "He shakes hands with everybody," said a Thai clerk after Johnson stormed Bangkok, "no matter if they are dirty or what." Johnson knows scores of foreign leaders, but their meetings rarely went much beyond the handshaking technique that he calls "pressing the flesh and looking them...
...This Is It!" In the 400 block of East 10th Street, about four miles from the warehouse, Patrolman J. D. Tippitt, 38, driving alone in a squad car, heard the call. He saw a man on the sidewalk and stopped his car to question him. The fellow's height and weight corresponded to the description. He had kinky brown hair, a prominent forehead, thick eyebrows, a crimped, tight mouth, and a defiant air. Tippitt and the man exchanged a few words. Then the policeman got out of his car and walked around to the sidewalk. The man pulled...
Bombs & Ambush. In Saigon, Red terrorists, many of whom infiltrated the capital under cover of the Buddhist demonstrations months ago, have been exploding bombs and throwing hand grenades sporadically since the coup. One night last week, a homemade bomb hidden under a table shattered a sidewalk cafe on tree-shaded Tu Do Street, wounding five U.S. soldiers. So far the ruling generals have not been able to police the streets as efficiently as Civilian Diem. One possible reason: the removal of some of Diem's tough Special Forces from the capital...
...talking about in Roccamena last week? Shakespeare, Brecht, Dante, Aeschylus, to name a few of the poets and playwrights whose works were featured in the town's first informal festival of the performing arts. Star performer was Movie Idol Vittorio Gassman, who for two straight nights strode a sidewalk "stage" illumined by car headlights while declaiming passages from Julius Caesar, The Divine Comedy and other works. Whatever they made of it, the Roccamenensi were an appreciative audience...
...some grimly humorous sights: outside the Hotel Caravelle, a Diem policeman seated in a tiny European car struggling desperately to get out of his uniform before the rebels spotted him; a pedestrian dashing madly around a corner, bullets kicking up sparks at his heels; a man scooting into a sidewalk pissoir an instant before it was riddled with machine-gun fire (five minutes later he dashed out unhurt). As tanks whipped off bursts of ammunition, children would duck right under the smoking muzzles to pick up the brass cartridge cases...