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...other moderate Republican Governors were hedging on the party's 1968 presidential nominee, Agnew was out working for his man?who was then New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller. "Nelson Rockefeller," he said again and again, "is the man best qualified to be President." In response to "the ground swell of public opinion that I have seen developing," he sponsored a draft-Rockefeller organization, flying around the country in a Rockefeller-chartered plane to sing the New Yorker's praises. He was still singing when Rocky pulled out of the race on March...
...editorial in the official Peking People's Daily ordered an end to factionalism, support for the army and the army-dominated revolutionary committees, and abandonment of the "mountain-stronghold mentality" by those who consider themselves more Maoist than Mao himself. These people, said the paper, are "swell-headed, and have even distorted Chairman Mao's instructions...
...keep profits from vanishing altogether, any wage hike of the magnitude demanded by France's workers must be followed by a round of price increases. Higher price tags on French goods, together with a big increase in consumer income, would swell imports and cut exports at a time when the country has already run into balance of payments difficulties. The French payments surplus, which amounted to $286 million in 1966, dwindled to nothing last year; even before the crisis, France was expecting to run a slight deficit this year...
...Victims of hydrocephalus whose skulls fail to drain body fluids and thus swell to disproportionate size. Surgically inserted tubes can relieve the condition...
...after De Gaulle offered one piece of advice too many about the war, but it is represented in Paris by a consul general; he can provide the mission with a convenient base. If the talks seem to be getting somewhere, the number of South Vietnamese observers is likely to swell to some 20. Though they will not take part in the talks, they presumably will be briefed by the U.S. negotiators...