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...months since President Johnson announced the U.S. military buildup for Viet Nam, draft calls have inched steadily upward. Last month's total - 49,300 - was the highest since early 1951, the peak mobilization period of the Korean War, when 80,000 men a month were called. The effect has been to deplete the nation's 1-A manpower pool to the point at which Selective Service headquarters is now forced to find new ways to replenish...
Hilles Library has a seating capacity of 600. Over the past week, a count by the staff indicates that there have never been more than 341 people in the library -- even at the peak hour of 8:30 p.m. The average for that hour has been not quite 240, and is even less for other times during...
...profits are surging. Standard of New Jersey, the world's largest oil company, last week reported record profits of $272 million for the third quarter, up 3% from the same period last year. Mobil, Cities Service and Standard of Ohio also set profit records. Gulf's alltime peak earnings of $122 million for the quarter were 20% higher than last year. Best gain of all the majors was registered by Atlantic-Richfield, whose nine-month profits climbed 32%, to $83 million. For 1966 as a whole, Standard & Poor's estimates that the industry's net will...
...house at Valley Stream, N.Y., recalls Franey, "I was furious." His gall was on account of Gallic upbringing. Born 46 years ago in Burgundy, Franey began an apprenticeship as a kitchen boy at 14, learned to cook at Paris' Drouant restaurant (two Michelin stars), reached his culinary peak as chef of New York's Pavilion (which would undoubtedly rate three stars if Michelin graded U.S. establishments). Like Friend and Fellow Chef René Verdon, who quit the White House last year after he was ordered to use frozen vegetables, Franey had always had a Gallic horror of anything...
Less Than Korea? The cost of Viet Nam may seem small in relation to the overall economy: total defense spending amounts to only 8% of the gross national product, less than the average ratio during the 1950s and little more than half the Korean war peak of 14½%. Yet, unlike the Korea war, which hit when the U.S. still had plenty of production slack and more than 5% unemployment, the Viet Nam war is an added burden on a substantially full-employment, full-production economy that has been expanding for 51 years...