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Brandt has special reasons for wanting the summit to be held as scheduled. After ruling West Germany for 2½ years as the Federal Republic's first Social Democratic Chancellor, Brandt has seen his coalition's slender majority dwindle to nothing, largely because of defections over the ratification of treaties with Moscow and Warsaw. He was also hurt by his government's poor record in its efforts to halt inflation. Faced with a stalemated Bundestag, he announced last week that he would seek new national elections in November. But it is questionable whether he will be able...
...impassive faces, the fact that they moved and talked and acted as one man. They seemed to stand so close that their shoulders touched. Their gestures and walk seemed intimidating, abrupt, heavy. Nixon seemed almost languid. He was always alone or a few paces ahead of his party. A slender man, his shoulders seemed to stoop even a little more than before...
Whenever a joke fad becomes entrenched, the small Los Angeles publishing house of Price/Stern/Sloan issues a slender paperback containing a sampling of the humor. Thus, in 1953, the firm published Droodles, a collection of simple line drawings with funny captions; in 1963 it put together The Elephant Book, offering the then-popular elephant jokes. Now, at least by Price/ Stern/Sloan standards, another kind of joke has made the grade. The company has just published The Good News, Bad News Book...
...upwards of 50 tanks finally struck in force last week, they met shockingly weak resistance from the poorly led ARVN troops, who abandoned a string of 14 firebases northwest of Kontum in what Saigon euphemistically called a "tactical withdrawal." At week's end U.S. advisers remaining with the slender garrison at Kontum were ordering supplies for a two-day siege -two days because, as one adviser said, "You're never going to get enough ammunition into this place to give you automatic weapons fire for much longer." With some 20,000 Communist troops tearing up Binh Dinh province...
...their relentless pursuit of a trim figure, American women by the millions have tried exercise wheels, home massage kits, sauna belts, sauna pants and mummy wraps. Now they are turning to something new: the Isotoner Body Beauty Suit, which seems to have a slender edge over the other devices. It requires no effort except for putting it on, and it slims the body, even if no pounds are shed...