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...addition to Hanoi's obvious desire to stall for time in hopes of strengthening its position on the battlefield, there are other reasons for the glacial pace of the talks. One is that the North Vietnamese clear even the most minuscule matters with Hanoi. They even had to exchange twelve cables before they were permitted to move from their expensive digs at the Hotel Lutetia to a 20-room suburban villa once occupied by the late French Communist boss Maurice Thorez. Hanoi hesitated out of fear: What would the Chinese Communists think of North Viet Nam's delegates...
...some credence by questioning other horsemen whose charges had been stabled near the Dancer's barn during Derby week. But Dancer's Image is a grey, an unusual color among thoroughbreds. He also is 1,050 Ibs. of fighting muscle; anybody blind enough to invade his stall by mistake would be taking his life in his hands-especially if he tried to force a pill down the horse's throat...
Families in Transition. With pampering comes primping. There is no end to which teen-age girls will not go, from shampooing their mounts' tails and fixing them with hair set to employing liquid shoe polish to cover up especially stubborn stall stains. All decked out, a horse must have some place to go, and one answer is the U.S. Pony Clubs ("Our Little League," says one mother). There are also the full-fledged horse shows, now almost weekly events in areas where there were once only three a year...
Midnight Draft. At the same time, the President began formulating his Sunday address. Working with him on the speech were Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, White House Aides Walt Rostow Harry McPherson and George Christian. General Earle Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Stall, was consulted. Also at Johnson's side, surprisingly, was Robert S. McNamara...
Goldby lets the pace stall at moments to let the dialogue sink in, as if Orton had some comment to make on life, instead of mocking all comment on life or death. Orton was a promising young English playwright (Entertaining Mr. Sloane) who was murdered by his friend (Kenneth Halliwell) last August (TIME, Sept. 15). Both his fate and some of his lines suggest that he had looked intimately into the abyss of existence. But Loot is not despairing, and even its shock effects are surprisingly good-natured...