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...more familiar faces around President Sukarno's office these days is the grim and sorrowing visage of Yao Chung-ming, Red China's ambassa dor in Djakarta. Three times in a week, he showed up to express his grave con cern at the Indonesian government's recent antisocialist behavior. If the Bung was being honest, he must have expressed grave concern right back, for there was precious little he could do about the disturbing turn of events. The army was clearly in control...
Commenting on De Gaulle's decision to seek re-election, Francon, a native of France, explained that "France's foreign problems are so grave that she must have a strong man at the helm." De Gaulle must be re-elected, he said, because "there is no one who could receive at much support from the French people as he probably will...
What did it all mean? Police, in the best tight-lipped Scotland Yard tradition, declined to say. Nonetheless, every reporter on the scene was busy trading rumor and theory. Last week an R.A.F. Canberra was called in to take aerial photographs of the grave sites. Newsmen promptly asked Detective Superintendent Arthur Benfield whether some kind of black cult could have buried its victims in a magic pattern or symbol, visible only from the air. "I like black magic," Benfield parried, "but they tend to make me put on weight." Black Magic is a well-known brand of English chocolates...
...great deal about a government system that concerns itself with details of daily living beyond the fantasies of yesterday's Utopians. To move through its 1,011 pages is to have one's eyes opened to a wonderland of federal paternalism that stretches from cradle to grave or, as the Department of Health, Education and Welfare might prefer to put it, from the Children's Bureau to the Office of Aging...
Jack Ruby's case may drag on for years. Whatever the outcome, his trial left Authors Kaplan and Waltz with grave doubts about the sole issue in question-whether he was indeed insane when he committed murder before 80 million TV witnesses. What was confirmed was that a highly publicized U.S. trial is more than likely to become a circus. And what is worse, that even an unpublicized U.S. trial metes out justice largely to the extent that the lawyers on both sides have equal skill-and equal luck...