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...lived-with his lovely young Chinese girl friend-in an elegant downtown villa. He showed up to slap backs and shake hands at every important social occasion, and his own glittering cocktail parties were the talk of Saigon-as was his official car, the only Government vehicle in Viet Nam with white sidewall tires. Always ready to help out with a favor, he made lots of friends-and some jealous enemies as well-for rare was the day that his picture or his name did not appear in the city's newspapers. And whenever Viet Cong terrorists bombed...
NOTHING THRILLED US HALF AS MUCH (Epic). This reissue of The Best of Fred Astaire is decidedly a collector's item: original recordings of such favorites as Cheek to Cheek, Slap That Bass and Let's Call the Whole Thing Off, sung and danced (the tapping is almost as expressive as the lyrics) by the master...
After Truman the guessing gets harder. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey will probably miss out, since giving him a degree would be a slap President Johnson's face. Rumor has it President Johnson will not get a hood from Harvard...
...many of the School's students bristled at the generality of even the most concrete proposals, and faculty reassurances notwithstanding, they feared that the implementation of the proposals would vitiate the new things, and merely slap a new coat of paint on the old. While there was still time, many of them thought, student action might be able to affect faculty deliberations...
Faulkner's three Introductions are readily available elsewhere; his three book reviews should charitably be burned. In seven sentences, for example, he calls Hemingway's The Old man and the Sea "His best," because "This time he discovered God." Perhaps the review represents a cleverly-couched slap at Hemingway. Let us hope...