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...expenses and salary, to enroll an executive, and the gold "sign of Hermes" tie tack presented to graduates has come to rank with the private ice-water carafe as a status symbol back at the home office. Though some participants never really break away from their desks for the six-week period and try to run things back at headquarters with flurries of long-distance telephone calls, most men-flattered at being chosen-drop everything to take the course, and leave their business worries to subordinates. "It really shows whether you've done a good job of delegating," observes...
Breaking a six-week lull in the war, a 600-man Viet Cong battalion stormed the district capital of Duchoa (pop.7,000) west of Saigon before dawn, ran into determined resistance by the outnumbered, 140-man garrison. Vietnamese Rangers barricaded inside a day nursery stopped one Viet Cong company at the edge of town. When the guerrillas opened fire on two U.S.-made 105-mm. howitzers defending the local military headquarters, the platoon of Vietnamese artillerymen shortened their fuses to 2 sec., slammed shells into the breaches, and blasted away pointblank at anything that moved-firing an awesome 322 rounds...
Ellington and his 15-piece orchestra began a blitzkrieg visit to California last week. After five days' residence at Disneyland and another few days of concerts around the state, the boys will strike out for a three-week tour of Japan-their first overseas venture since they came home from a six-week European tour in March. In the past 100 days, the Duke has given 25 concerts, made an LP, and taped four television shows, all while working on a new musical called Sugar City that is scheduled for Broadway this fall...
Forty Peace Corps volunteers will train at Harvard this summer for assignments in Nyasaland, Africa, as rural public health assistants. The six-week program is the first offered by the Peace Corps to prepare volunteers for Nyasaland...
...Panama were still at arm's length over the Canal Zone, though both sides seemed to be wearying of the six-week dispute. A new formula called for the two countries to resume diplomatic relations and then appoint negotiators with "full plenipotentiary powers" to discuss the 1903 treaty under which the U.S. operates the Panama Canal. The phraseology was intended to satisfy Panamanian demands for changes in the treaty, while not committing the U.S. in advance. By week's end Secretary of State Dean Rusk could only say: "There has not been an agreement...