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...schools, straight A's, a degree in journalism from Louisiana State). He dabbled in acting before he broke into print three years ago with a brace of unsolicited interviews in the New York Times and the late Herald Tribune's New York Magazine. Now the assignments threaten to inundate him: last week a treatment of Jean Seberg in the Times; next month interviews with Jane Wyman, Katharine Ross, Harper's Bazaar Editor China Machado; a reminiscence on Carson McCullers (an old personal friend); a film for Melina Mercouri (a new personal friend); reviews and TV appearances...
...from its own infirmities once the prop of U.S. support and the urgency of waging a war is removed. That may or may not prove true. Meanwhile, President Nguyen Van Thieu's elected government continues to go about the necessary business of trying to govern while the Communists threaten a new wave of attacks on cities, aimed at toppling Thieu...
...enormous 670,000 tons (equivalent to 25% of the total dropped by both the U.S.A.A.F. and the R.A.F. on Europe during World War II) in more than 26,000 sorties. Most of their bombs are aimed south of the DMZ, where few if any antiaircraft missiles exist to threaten the lumbering, relatively slow-moving attackers. Some 80 of the Strategic Air Command's older D and E models of the B-52, originally designed to haul nuclear weapons, have been converted for Viet Nam duty. They normally carry up to 84 conventional "iron" bombs of 500 lbs. each tucked...
...compiling the list of draft board members over a six-month period, BDRG claims it sometimes had "to threaten court action to find out the names...
Still, for all the talk of "polycentrism" in Communist leadership, Moscow has never really abandoned Nikolai Bukharin's notion that "centripetal tendencies" would one day unite world Communism under the Kremlin banner. Now the Czechoslovaks not only threaten to speed the breakup of Eastern Europe but propose a top-to-bottom spiritual reordering of the Communist way of life as well. Says British Kremlinologist Tibor Szamuely: "Russia is perfectly correct in interpreting the Czechoslovak experiment as something that will lead that country into a non-Communist democracy. The Soviet empire in Eastern Europe is at stake...