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...Army headquarters that's now a sort of historical shrine. We saw all the houses that Chairman Mao once lived in, and a labor hero who spoke to him three times, and a museum with the horse he used to ride, stuffed, like Trigger outside the Roy Rogers Restaurant. So we didn't see much of the countryside there, except a May 7 Cadre School--a farm where non-manual workers are supposed to spend six months from time to time working and studying, the idea being that farming will help them identify with farmers' interests. We had lunch there...
Besides, while the British army is still rounding up I.R.A. terrorists in Ulster, English police have so far failed to crack any of the tiny "active service units" that have brought the bloody civil war across the Irish Sea to England. In London, Home Secretary Roy Jenkins at week's end pledged "emergency legislation" to combat the terrorists...
...Ramsey Clark, the Democratic nominee, who drew 39%, and Conservative Party Candidate Barbara Keating, who got 15%. Robert Dole of Kansas, who was Republican National Chairman in 1972, won by a whisker. Four months ago Dole thought he was "down the tube." But he managed to beat Obstetrician William Roy (by about 2%), with the help of a Manhattan political-research firm and a Boston advertising agency. A TV commercial showed a Dole poster with mud being thrown at it, then the mud miraculously falling away to reveal the handsome Dole unblemished. By thus aggressively fighting back against the taint...
...Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and was backed by 32 Jewish groups around the U.S. Not all participants, however, were Jewish. Among those who addressed the crowd-in addition to former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban and ex-Defense Minister Moshe Dayan -were Democratic Senator Henry Jackson and Roy Wilkins of the NAACP...
...James Bond's screen debut, with Sean Connery and Ursula Andress. According to Roy Solell, our Bond-expert, "It's one of the dullest movies ever made...Connery's face looks like it's been cut up into six different parts and then stitched back together again...he's a real walking shark, the most vapid sexist of all times...in trying to portray Bond as the master of style and elan he just comes off as if he were reading a cue card...Connery puts clumsiness back into violence." Ch. 5, 9 p.m., 2 hours...