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...World War II.*It was particularly apt at a time when the nation was involved in its biggest and most bitterly disputed venture since Korea. In South Viet Nam, that involvement led last week to outbursts of anti-Americanism as students put the U.S. consulate in Hue to the torch and hoisted the Vietnamese flag. Nine Buddhist monks and nuns, women and teen-agers burned themselves alive to protest the U.S. presence and its support of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and the military Directory...
Divorced. Edward Durell Stone, 64, architect of romantically grilled and colonnaded buildings (U.S. embassy in New Delhi, Huntington Hartford's Gallery of Modern Art in Manhattan): by Maria Torch Stone, 37, his flashy second wife; on grounds of incompatibility, after eleven years of marriage, two children, and 18 months of public spatting; in Juárez, Mexico...
Architect Edward Durell Stone, 64, was beaming. His former flame had a glow in her eyes. "Goodbye, Maria. Good luck," Stone whispered dramatically in New York State Supreme Court. Thus the architect parted from his wife Maria Elena Torch Stone, 37, after eleven years of marriage, the last two of which had been filled with charges and countercharges of abandonment and adultery. Now she will have custody of their two children, about $55,000 a year in alimony and the $250,000 Manhattan town house, where she will settle down to complete a fictional account of her experiences in architecture...
...rough and tumble of their immigrant ancestors but take most unkindly to unpatriotic displays. Trouble was in the air as eleven Viet Nam demonstrators reached the steps of the South Boston courthouse, where two of them calmly burned their draft cards and two others put the torch to their draft-reclassification notices...
...result Doherty can do little more than mouth pious phrases about the "vitality" of the Democratic party or about "John Kennedy passing on the torch." But Doherty's words belie his thoughts. He knows that he has a problem, and he has some ideas about how to meet it. Unfortunately, he may never be given a chance...