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Robert F. Kennedy and William F. Buckley Jr. have much in common. They are both young, attractive, wealthy, Roman Catholic, of Irish descent and Ivy League background. Both married daughters of wealthy families and chose to spend their lives in politics (and related professions) rather than in merely enlarging the fortunes their industrious fathers gave them. Both are aggressive combatants...
Reason for this reassuring ratio is that no other industry spends nearly so much time or money playing it safe. The planes themselves are built to such exacting standards that any big multiengined plane can easily climb away from the ground with one engine out, cruise on even less power, and land safely-as a Pan Am 707 did last year-with half a wing burned away. If private cars were serviced as intensely as commercial planes, each driver would need three full-time mechanics, and his auto would be fully inspected before every trip, however short. As for pilots...
Jacqueline Kennedy will be speaking practically nothing but Spanish this month. She flies off to Buenos Aires with Caroline and John-John to spend an Easter holiday on the cattle ranch of former Argentine Foreign Minister Miguel Cárcano, an old family friend. After a good week's riding on the pampas, Jackie will bring the children back to Manhattan for a short rest, then set off for more Spanish and horses, this time as guest of the Duchess of Alba at Seville's muy pintoresca Spring Fair...
...dead?has been put aside as irrelevant. "Personally, I've never been confronted with the question of God," says one such politely indifferent atheist, Dr. Claude Lévi-Strauss, professor of social anthropology at the Collège de France. "I find it's perfectly possible to spend my life knowing that we will never explain the universe." Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray points to another variety of unbelief: the atheism of distraction, people who are just "too damn busy" to worry about...
Sandbags & Gravel. The U.S. Defense Department, which uses Okinawa as its major offshore supply depot for troops in Viet Nam, has an inventory there of $250 million in military hardware, but nevertheless it intends to spend another $13.8 million in Asia this year for supplies that would take too long to come all the way from Stateside. Factories in Japan and Korea in the meantime are turning out hundreds of thousands of combat boots with thick rubber soles and steel plates to protect soldiers from both jungle and booby trap. The Koreans are tailoring 750,000 uniforms for the Vietnamese...