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...leading a demonstration against a U.S. arms shipment, Madame Binh is a well-traveled veteran of the Communist diplomatic circuit. She has represented the N.L.F. at conferences in Moscow, Peking and Cairo, and at a congress of the Women's Union of France in Paris earlier this year. Trim and articulate, her black hair swept back, Madame Binh has skillfully smiled her way through receptions and carefully stuck to the N.L.F. line when confronted by curious Western newsmen who hang on her every move. L'Express described her as "a sort of Joan of Arc of the rice...
...expressly intended to ease year-to-year shortages. If the deficit exceeds the relatively meager limits of the departmental balance, however, Dean Ford will probably ask the Corporation treasurer for a loan. Presumably, if the deficits continued, the Faculty would have to decide either to trim its costs or raise its tuition...
...INDIANA. Republican Edgar D. Whitcomb, 50, is a trim (6 ft., 180 Ibs.) George Romney look-alike whose wife Pat is widely regarded as the prettiest woman on the Indiana political scene. A bomber navigator in World War II, Whitcomb was captured by the Japanese, later wrote a book called Escape from Corregidor, which he distributed by the thousands during his campaign. In his race against Lieutenant Governor Robert L. Rock, the Democratic nominee, conservative Whitcomb promised to veto any rise in state taxes, even though the Indiana treasury is bare...
Whitten's role as leader of the group came as no surprise. A conservative and long-time opponent of federal civil rights bills, Whitten had fought to trim every appropriation bill this year (except one providing for increasing Interstate Highway construction, much of it, coincidentally, in the South...
High Expectations. Such plans may trim Boeing's hopes for a mass-travel market that would have some 450 of the new planes in service by 1976. Then, too, unforeseen competition now looms from Lockheed and McDonnell Douglas, whose "airbuses," originally designed for shorter hops, could well be stretched in range and payload. Still, Boeing expects that history will repeat itself. When the last "new era" in flight came in the late 1950s, the then-new jetliners expanded air travel beyond even the most optimistic expectations...