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...Carmichael tells the Negro. "It's his war. Let him fight it. The Viet Nam war is for the birds-Lady Bird, Lyndon Bird and all the other birds." Leaflets turned out by the Viet Cong are crude and peppered with misspellings and misstatements (Newark becomes Neward; South Bend, Southden; and Grand Rapids, Gerand Rapid). Though the leaflets show a growing sophistication, current American idiom often booby-traps...
...firmness and hard work. Sworn in last week as Australia's 19th Prime Minister-succeeding the late Harold Holt, who drowned last month off Portsea (TIME, Dec. 29)-Gorton is also very much his own man. He will probably wield a stronger, more decisive leadership than Holt and bend slightly to the left in his domestic policy, pushing for more government-aided health services, larger old-age pensions and a more decisive federal voice in state affairs...
...supervised the revitalization of the Army and other "cost-effective" reforms as McNamara's discreet alter ego. Vance's health is a limitation in the grinding job of Defense Secretary: the back ailment that forced his retirement earlier this year is so painful that he often cannot bend over to tie his shoelaces...
...golfer: a faster swing with the same effort-and increased distance on each shot. Another advantage of the speeded-up swing is that the club head tends to rotate less, thereby reducing the chances of hooking or slicing the ball. Tempering the aluminum so that it would not bend was the major manufacturing problem, but several companies-notably Wilson, Spalding and MacGregor -have finally licked...
...house acting as catalyst, talks were set up in Denver with Signal President Forrest N. Shumway. The critical decision to negotiate toward merger came in October in a phone call between Allis-Chalmers Chairman Robert S. Stevenson and Shumway, who was attending a Notre Dame football game in South Bend, Ind. Signal's purchase price figures to be worth about $45 per share of Allis-Chalmers' common (last week's closing: $38.75), considerably less than the $55-$60 estimate that Ling put on his final offer. That could mean trouble for Allis-Chalmers, which has already been...