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Official Optimism. Of late, Khanh has had to remind his civilian collaborators that they are essentially window dressing in a military regime. Last week Interior Minister Ha Thuc Ky, whom Diem found it expedient to jail for four years, indignantly resigned because he could not load the provincial payrolls with stalwarts of his Dai Viet Party (membership: 2,000). Khanh has filled such posts with battle-hardened army officers. The malcontents spread rumors of possible coups and sneer that Khanh is "becoming a dictator like Diem...
...Fair grounds in New York, "Ford has actually created three cars in one." Aside from the basic $2,368 model (which is not so basic; it comes with bucket seats, padded dash, and leatherlike vinyl upholstery), anyone who wants to turn his Mustang into a little Thunderbird can load it with just about every luxury option Detroit has, from automatic transmission to a big V-8 to air conditioning. Finally, the sports-car purist who wants performance and more horsepower can spend up to $3,500 by adding a European-style stiff suspension, disk brakes and a fourspeed manual transmission...
...Going, going, gone!" echoed a thousand times through the vast marble interiors of Venice's 17th century Palazzo Labia last week. Going, going, gone was another vestige of Venetian elegance, knocked down by the gondola-load to smaller-than-life nobodies representing Swiss antique dealers, dubious shops on Madison Avenue, secretive European and American collectors, and doubtless some ambassadors from small countries, intent on robbing Italy's art treasures via the diplomatic pouch...
...these individuals can't carry the load alone, and the rest of the Cadet squad just don't measure up to their Crimson counterparts...
Even at that, the manufacturers are showing a disturbing reluctance to assume financial responsibility. This attitude angers Congress, which has already appropriated $60 million for studies but now refuses to authorize a cent more until the companies agree to carry part of the load. In Washington the word is out that the companies must display a more venturesome attitude before Congress agrees to finance the U.S. into the age of supersonic travel...