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...Finally," he recalled, "I told Mrs. Grew that if we took the post in Tokyo, some day we might be in a position to sway the issue of peace or war between Japan...
...award was also a tribute to the international sway of rock 'n' roll, which is now as international as sex, the U.N. and Jewish cooking. Billed as Britain's Shirley Temple at the age of nine, when the BBC had her singing to the tommies overseas, Petula (pronounced Peh-tyou-la) was doing reasonably well, until at 25 she hiply hopped across the Channel to record two songs in France. When the first was a big hit, she settled down, married a French recording executive, bore two children and became a smash...
Forest of Darkness. Saigon's biggest victory last week came in the Mekong Delta, where government troops set an elaborately bloody trap for the Viet Cong. Since 1945 the Communists had held sway over the delta's mangrove-choked Uminh ("Forest of Darkness"), which Vietnamese legend said was inhabited by werewolves. Not even the French were able to penetrate it. Managing to lure two Viet Cong battalions out of the forest and into a "hollow square" defense perimeter, government infantry pounced, as "Cobras"-armed U.S. helicopters-moved in with close support. While naval support craft slammed away with...
Scoping It In. In coed climes there is some mixed viewing, but "most of the comments preclude having a date," says a Stanford Sigma Chi. Watching "all those fine young bods sway" just seems more comfortable stag. And of course the boys like to "scope in the sports real deep," a time when any self-respecting female would prefer doing almost anything else...
...help keep the new regents nonpolitical, they were to be named for stagger appointments of one to nine years, thus extending their sway beyond the maximum four-year term of any one Governor. Last month Farris Bryant was followed into the Statehouse by Haydon Burns, who charged during the campaign that there were an unspecified number of "pinks and Communists on the campuses," and warned that "they would be wise to resign." Five days before the end of his term, however, Bryant named the first nine regents. Burns refused to accept them, then announced that he would contest...