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...appears that the U.S. is considering either a negotiated settlement or a withdrawal in South Viet Nam [Jan. 8]. Any solution short of victory, which is possible, will nullify all the efforts of those who have given so much. They will have died in vain. Unfortunately it is the Vietnamese people who will suffer the most. Our involvement in Viet Nam is rapidly becoming the greatest political and military debacle in our history. If we were incapable, there would be an excuse. There is no excuse...
...HEALTH: Since 1961, Democratic Administrations have tried in vain to get a medicare bill that would offer hospital care for Americans over 65, paid for by an additional social security tax. This year Johnson made medicare the subject of his first message to Congress and embedded it in an elaborate package of other health projects (see box). To make medicare acceptable, Johnson agreed with Wilbur Mills's plan to finance it with a separate payroll tax. The bill almost certainly will pass both houses. "That will be done quickly," predicted Albert. And New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton...
...Eastman has written his autobiography; it is long, racy, candid and vain. It has the egalitarian earnestness of a Tom Paine, the lighthearted sexual adventurousness of a Casanova, the self-preoccupation of a Cellini. The book is also an important document, because Eastman, who observed the early Bolsheviks closely in Russia, was prematurely antiCommunist. In time a whole generation of American radicals would repeat his disillusionment and break with the Communist Party...
Though Marriage occasionally creaks like a piece of stage machinery, Director De Sica cunningly transforms its back street romance into an earthy, exuberant paean to virtue. Mastroianni's vain, middle-aged gallan-checking the coxcomb at every mirror, sneaking into a little dance of smug self-satisfaction -smacks of the satyr that most men yearn to be when the moon is right. And Sophia has become far too perceptive an actress to squander her talents as a mere prostitute-with-a-heart-of-gold. Now wild, now touchingly woebegone, now coolly indomitable, she is Everywoman, Italian style...
Died. Vladimir Yourkevitch, 79, designer of France's famed Normandie, chief competitor of Britain's Queens for transatlantic honors in the 1930s, who in 1942 stood on a Manhattan pier as the ship burned and finally capsized, crying in vain to police holding him back that he alone had the knowledge to save the vessel; of cancer; in Yonkers...