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...proposed taxes are hardly likely to clip the jet set's wings. "I don't want to be the only one staying in America," says Marylou Whitney, wife of Racehorse Owner C. V. Whitney, who likes to visit Europe in the fall. Nor are notable numbers of tourists switching from the Alps to the Tetons, or from the music festival in Salzburg to Hemisfair in San Antonio. "We can't put our hands on a single cancellation," says Boston Travel Agent Bruce A. Rogal. Moreover, the State Department reports a 20% increase in passport applications...
...Israelis, on the other hand, have no intention of letting the canal open so long as they are denied its use. As for the U.S., it seems quite content to watch Soviet ships bound for North Viet Nam having to take a wearying 14,000-mile trip around Africa (v. 7,000 miles through Suez...
...Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it has been a zingy decade-notably in the space race with Russia. Pickering's box score: 500 satellites, 13 successful moon missions, 2,000 hours of manned flight and twelve hours of human excursion outside a spacecraft for the U.S., v. 250 satellites, eight moon shots, 530 hours of manned flight and 20 minutes outside a spacecraft for the Soviets...
...Rear Admiral John V. Smith, son of the late Marine General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, protested both the Pueblo incident and an attempted attack on South Korea's President Chung Hee Park by a North Korean suicide squad earlier in the week. His Communist counterpart, Major General Pak Chung Kuk-known to American officers as "Frog Face"-claimed that the U.S. ship had been caught spying in North Korean waters and that the suicide squad was actually made up of "patriotic" South Koreans. To that, Smith angrily retorted: "I want to tell you, Pak, that the evidence...
...North Korea, where some 2,400 commandos are now being trained to infiltrate the South to start a guerrilla war. The results have become apparent in the North's new aggressiveness along the Demilitarized Zone at the 38th parallel. In 1967, there were 566 North Korean infiltration incidents v. only 50 in 1966; 117 exchanges of fire compared with only 19 in 1966; and 122 men of the U.N. command killed (including 16 Americans) v. 35 the year before. No wonder Kim warned recently that "a tense situation in which a war may break out at any moment...