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...Center near Bangkok have any plans to work on such far-out equipment. Detecting and dealing with guerrillas is their basic task, and if they have not yet figured out how to spy on the enemy's innermost thoughts, they have at least gone a long way toward pin pointing his presence. They have built detectors that spot guerrillas by their slightest sounds or movements. They can literally sniff an enemy's presence by the very odors of his body, food or clothing. "What we are trying here," says Physicist R. D. Holbrook, who heads the U.S. contingent...
...been practicing his art in a Manhattan shop as well. Trouble is, New York State requires a license for that sort of thing, and it wants him to take its hairdresser exam. "Asinine and obsolete," said Sassoon. "The test requires that I do finger waving and reverse pin curling-things that haven't been used since Gloria Swanson was in silent movies." It wasn't that he couldn't do these things, he added, but that he wouldn't. Responded the New York State secretary of state...
When the crowds sagged, the vendors pattered amongst themselves, each, one suspects, glorying in his own casualness, his uniquely spotted pants or his single bit of pin wheeling sartorial supremacy. They often happened to be leaning on the table piled with Cliffe registers, and so it was natural enough that they discuss the stars in the new class, the girls who would be hoisted up as public monuments and whose motions would churn up the earth...
...China last week must have done a double take as they reached Hong Kong. There, queued up in Kowloon Station beside the mid-morning train to Canton were hundreds of Chinese waiting to go home. There were teen-age girls in distinctly non-proletarian blouses, old men in bourgeois pin-striped suits, and women whose arms were draped with heavy jackets in anticipation of the chilly Chinese autumn. The refugees-in-reverse were overseas Chinese from Indonesia, some 4,000 of whom have fled back to the mainland in recent months...
...course, the totals do not include unofficial tournaments and sundry additional enterprises that can add another $50,000 to $250,000 to a golfer's take-home pay. The tally does decide who is the 1966 P.G.A. money champ. And in the approach to that pin, Nicklaus is only a putt or so away. Jowly Jack has been skipping a few contests in favor of some fishing and hunting, but when he does play, he averages more winnings than any other man on the tour. With seven official tournaments to go, he could catch Casper. The standings to date...