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...people of the U.S. went about their normal summer pursuits-the kind that make no headlines-with more affluence and enthusiasm than ever be fore. The World's Fair clocked its 18 millionth visitor, and baseball's National League registered nearly three-quarters of a million more customers than in 1963. In California twice as many U.S. families were traveling to the Orient as two years ago. Riding a wave of unprecedented prosperity, Americans were buying more of everything-sailboats and sports cars, wigs and swimming pools (see U.S. BUSINESS...
...responsive nerve, for the American people's experience in South Viet Nam has been the most frustrating since the long, tragic "police action" of the 1950s that ended in a stalemate with the Reds, at a cost of 33,629 U.S. lives. Small wonder that a recent American visitor to Viet Nam, on his third night in Saigon, had a dream in which he discovered the solution to the Vietnamese problem. "It was brilliant and simple," he recalls, "but somehow it kept slipping away." Feeling slightly embarrassed, he confided his vision to another American, who replied. "Everybody in Saigon...
...preparing for an offensive of his own in another direction. In one of those gestures of détente toward the West that so aggravate his Chinese Communist adversaries, Khrushchev called in a visiting "capitalist-imperialist" for a 21-hour chat in the Premier's Kremlin office. The visitor was none other than David Rockefeller, of Wall Street and the Chase Manhattan Bank, who had been attending a meeting in Leningrad when Nikita summoned him. In a "relaxed, friendly, even though extremely frank" atmosphere, Khrushchev renewed his insistence that trade between the U.S. and Russia be increased, told...
INDIA. Water cascades down the exterior of the glass pavilion, a quote from Gandhi is carved in pink marble, and sari-clad girls welcome the visitor to view such Indian art objects as the palace doors of Rajasthan, Hindu temple hangings, Buddha sculptures and miniature paintings...
...mayor seemed most concerned for the city's reputation, during a World's Fair year, as a tourist attraction. Hotels had reported more than 500 reservations canceled, and Wagner, making a patently preposterous claim, said that "no single visitor to our city has been physically attacked or brutalized in any way." That was news to Max Colwell, 61, manager of the famed Pasadena Tournament of Roses, who, only five hours before, had been beaten and robbed of nearly $1,000 while visiting New York...