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Though South Viet Nam commands the headlines, it is not the only country that the North Vietnamese have invaded in force. Neighboring Laos shares that unhappy distinction, despite the fact that, under the Geneva accords of 1962, no foreign forces are permitted in the neutralist Elephant Kingdom of 3,000,000 people. From the very beginning, Hanoi broke that agreement by routing the main part of the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos. Now the North is stepping up its attacks on the Royal Lao government itself, hitting with force up and down the length of the narrow nation...
...closest to shore and the expense of pumping gas out of the field and into an expanding British pipeline system will be less than the cost to some other combines. Another is that, unlike Shell, Esso and others, Phillips has no large oil market in the United Kingdom and thus does not have to worry about upsetting domestic prices for its other fuels by pumping in cheap natural gas. Listening to the angry outbursts from other oilmen, Phillips U.K. Managing Director Paul Tucker explained: "If somebody else had done this before us, we'd be screaming...
...Durham bacon cake, caudle, flummery, ale jelly, Rissered haddie, Huntingdon fidget, Bucks bacon badger, star-gazey pie, slapjack, Bedfordshire clanger, Hindle wakes, bockings, jugged rabbit, Somerset rook pie, bog star, jellied eels, Burlington whimsey, pigs' pettitoes, Kingdom of Fife, limpet stovies, dressmaker tripe, Gooseberry Fool...
MUTUAL OF OMAHA'S WILD KINGDOM (NBC, 7-7:30 p.m.). A cougar and her three cubs migrate from high in the Rocky Mountains to a lower valley where they will spend the winter...
...forced fusion of cultures can sometimes produce brilliant offspring. A case in point is colonial Peru. After King Atahualpa was garroted by Francisco Pizarro in 1533, the Spanish conquistadors turned the Inca kingdom into a viceroyalty; some 16 million Indians were enslaved and converted at gunpoint. Indian artisans were appalled by the viceroy's cruelty, but they were thankful for the priests' ministrations. They embraced the conquerors' faith with fervor. They reared churches of baroque magnificence, carved passion figures of harrowing pathos. Delicately they embellished icons and chamber pots alike with the gold once sacred...