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...State Department functionaries mulled over more than half a dozen plans, probably one from General William C. West moreland, the U.S. commander in Viet Nam, calling for 206,000 troops beyond the 525,000 already authorized. But there was a feeling that the debate was being conducted in a vacuum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Debate in a Vacuum | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

Champagne for Opponents. Unlike his counterparts in other African countries who tend to denounce all forms of foreign influence, Houphouët has accomplished the Ivory Coast's transformation by openly luring overseas capital and know-how to fill the vacuum left by the French departure. Today, foreigners-mostly French-occupy key technical posts in many government ministries and a full 90% of the top-and middle-level administrative jobs in private business. Thousands of skilled and unskilled workers from other African lands have flocked into the country as well, until foreigners now account for more than half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ivory Coast: Oasis in a Desert | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...married the father of her child. That unlucky event came to pass recently for Dorothy Malone, the show's sob-racked mother figure ever since it opened 3½ years ago-and she has been written out of the action as of early June. In to fill the vacuum will go able Movie Veteran Barbara Rush, 38, who has a string of first-rate acting jobs to her credit (The Bramble Bush, Oh Men! Oh Women!) but almost none of the usual Hollywood hurrah. Her road to fame in Peyton Place: a man-weary divorcee trying to bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 8, 1968 | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

Prentice Claflin, as the puckish lush Ivan the Knife, swaggers, slobbers, and leers risibly. Hotiana's Jo (Peter Gilbert) on the other hand maintains the stony-faced good humor of a vacuum cleaner salesman reciting the merits of a Hoover...

Author: By Stephen E. Cotton, | Title: All the Queen's Men | 3/6/1968 | See Source »

Less than a month ago, he was planning his third senatorial campaign. But Morton's depression, for himself, his party and nation, was too much. Last week he announced his retirement. Creating a vacuum that could splinter Republican power in Kentucky, the 60-year-old Morton told the press: "To use an old Kentucky expression, I suppose I am just plain 'track sore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Track Sore | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

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