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...Winner. The leader of the Lotus Blossom slate is Vu Van Mau, 56, a law professor who served as Ngo Dinh Diem's Foreign Minister. "Thieu would like a military victory," says Mau. "But even the U.S. has said many times that there will be no winner or loser in Viet Nam. Therefore we must win peace." After last weekend's triumph, the Buddhists may decide to run pro-peace candidates for the presidency and the lower house next year...
Hanging loose apparently pays off; CSN&Y is about as popular as a U.S. rock group can be. Prior to its release two weeks ago, Déjà Vu had already earned $2,000,000 in advance orders -an unprecedented feat at Atlantic Records, which has also produced such bestselling artists as Aretha Franklin, Led Zeppelin and Cream. Not only that, the group's first LP won the "best new artists of 1969" award at the recent Grammy Awards, the record industry's version of the Oscars. Where were the boys while all the other new groups...
...weeks ago, the deja vu nature of Boston city politics was simply reasserted, and there is no indication that things will change. Shaw, sadly, is still relevant...
...over parody. For parody has been proliferating all around us, until it has now become the very Soul of the Age. No one can any longer be quite sure what is parody and what is not, There are, of course, the obvious exceptions. Spiro as V.P. is a deja vu parody of Richard as V.P.: Tricia. dressed as a gypsy princess at a White House Halloween party, is out to parody her sister Julie's marriage to a grinning David: and airline hijacker Rafael Minichiello is certainly a master parodist even if TWA is hesitant to admit it. But most...
Apart from the new small and sporty cars designed to frustrate the fast rise of imports, the 1970s look like and are much like the 1969s. In the year of déjà vu, the only completely redesigned full-sized car is the Lincoln, which, among other things, now has a body bolted to the frame for a quieter ride. Several cars have more powerful engines; the biggest of all is the Cadillac Eldorado's, at 500 cu. in. The Plymouth Barracuda is one of the few cars that have had enough sheet-metal changes to give...