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...opening for Charles de Gaulle, who wants to wheel and deal in the area of France's old Indo-China empire (he keeps suggesting a "neutralized" Viet Nam, hinted last week that France may establish diplomatic relations with Communist North Viet Nam). But whether Paris will fill the gap to be left by the elimination of a $30 million annual U.S. dole remains to be seen. France has been supplying Cambodia only one-tenth the U.S.'s contribution, mostly to maintain a 300-man force training the Cambodian army...
Knit Fireworks. In his private person, Simon is shy, quiet and inconspicuous. But Walter Mitty would be jealous. He is the man who listens unnoticed as the professional party clowns laugh it up, then-in a momentary gap in the uproar-drops a quiet line that tops them all. "Doc" Simon, as he has been called since he used to compete with physicians in their attempts to diagnose family sicknesses, has been writing jokes since he was in his teens. His father was a dress salesman, and the Simons lived in an apartment in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan...
...show the Indians the side of American culture Indians usually don't see. "They get plenty of rock and roll, kitchen gadgets, and fast cars," said Bayne, "but they don't know about the parts of the white man's world which have more value." To fill this gap Bayne and George Goldberg '63 set up a science and music program at Camp Unitah...
...Military Space Gap...
During the floor debate on the bill, several other questions were raised by opponents of the moon program questions which put more pressure on the Administration to clarify its space goals. A number of Republican representatives voiced the fear that a "military space gap" had grown, that the Russians were far ahead of the United States in the development of space for military purposes. They urged a greater cooperation between NASA and the Department of Defense on space research, leading to a militarily-oriented man in space program. They asked, in fact, that the Administration completely "reassess its priorities...