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Common Guru. Nixon's New Hampshire weekend was a preview of the tactics he will use vis-a-vis Johnson. He attacked the implementation of the Administration's Viet Nam policy, but not its broad goals. He promised to spell out later his own "ways and means" of bringing the war "to a quicker conclusion." In Concord, where Nixon gave his first major speech of the campaign, he held L.B.J. to account not only for failure to end the war, but for crime, racial tensions and economic problems as well. "I don't think America can afford...
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...Humble Oil invites drivers to stop by at its filling stations to play "Tigerama." Mobil's "Winning Line" offers $1,000 to anybody who completes a card with pictures of three gas pumps; Sinclair offers up to $2,500 to customers who match up coupons to spell out a slogan in its "Dino Dollars" contest. With no requirement that the driver buy gas (thus ensuring that the games will not be classified as lotteries) and with prizes including watches, luggage, color-TV sets, automobiles and up to $10,000 in cash, the oil companies' 304 different current giveaway...
...Gesture. Even when he is not making music, Mehta exerts the near-hypnotic spell of a gregarious, cultivated gypsy. He is small (5 ft. 7 in., 155 Ibs.), but his tousled sable locks, his honey-colored aquiline features and voracious energy give him the appeal of a matinee idol and make him a kind of culture hero. Even the English translation of his first name-"powerful sword"-seems to personify his character. In Los Angeles, strangers hail him as "Zubi baby." Everywhere, the wealthy and famous seek him out, and females from teeny-boppers to blue-haired patronesses shiver
...began teaching him the rudiments of the baton. One day, when Zubin was 16, his father let him conduct a Bombay Symphony rehearsal. "The moment he got onto the podium," says Bombay Cellist George Lester, "he instantly took command, gave us our correct cues and put us under his spell...