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...passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which authorized the President "to take all necessary steps, including the use of armed forces," to protect American units in Southeast Asia from attack and to aid U.S. allies there. It was the closest Congress ever came to making the nation's longest war official, and it gave Lyndon Johnson support in escalating the American involvement in Viet...
...Muskie and Gromyko talked for nearly three hours over a "wide range" of subjects. The next day came the coup of the trip for a presidential candidate seeking to strengthen his foreign policy credentials: a 3-hr. 45-min. interview on "bilateral interests" with Aleksei Kosygin. It was the longest discussion that the Soviet Premier has held with an American visitor since coming to power. Once again came word that the talks had been "cordial." Muskie would not elaborate beyond that stock description, insisting that he needed "time to digest." After all, he said, "I am known as a cautious...
London's Heathrow Airport was jammed for three days with 10,000 shivering passengers grounded by an icy fog. Stretches of the Danube froze over, trapping countless vessels. Drifts blocked approaches to the world's longest underpass, the Simplon twin railway tunnels between Switzerland and Italy. In France's Rhone Valley, some 15,000 vehicles on auto routes to the Riviera were snowbound in drifts as high as 10 ft. Some motorists were trapped for 72 hours in their cars, and two babies were born in the autos before their mothers could be rescued. Normally punctual French...
Spencer Haywood, a prodigious jumper under the boards, has just taken the longest leap of his life-from the American Basketball Association to the rival National Basketball Association. In so doing, he stirred up a flurry of lawsuits, restraining orders, injunctions and protests that struck at the very structure of pro basketball. Federal Judge Warren Ferguson, who last week postponed a ruling in the case until Jan. 29, knifed through the complex legal questions to the heart of the matter. "Everyone," he said, "is after this kid's money...
...farewell, but the theater was filled with "hellos." In the rear of the orchestra, watching the final curtain ring down on Hello, Dolly! was the original Dolly, Carol Charming, who opened the show on Jan. 16, 1964. Hello, Dolly! went on to become Broadway's longest-running musical, with 2,844 performances (My Fair Lady is second with 2,717). Channing was followed in Dolly's role by Ginger Rogers, Martha Raye, Betty Grable, Pearl Bailey, Phyllis Diller and, finally, by Ethel Merman, who belted out the final hellos last week and then took the final curtain calls...