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...ceasefire. With a unanimous Security Council vote behind him, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant hurried off to the Indian sub continent, where his homilies were greeted with outright scorn. After two days of fruitless meetings in Rawalpindi, a Pakistani official said: "Thant's visit is like a Boy Scout blowing his whistle, tweet, tweet, and telling us to be good. We have been good long enough." And for all its years of lip service to the U.N. and world peace, the Indian government was hardly more receptive to Thant's proposals...
Before it canceled, Waldbaum's carefully surveyed customer preference; it says that only 4% definitely wanted stamps. Grocers in general have discovered that shoppers are more sophisticated and more mobile than they were a generation ago; housewives now scout all food prices, use their cars and convenient parking facilities to move from store to store for selected items. Many housewives who formerly shopped only at one supermarket now divide their weekly grocery budgets among several. Like the earlier competitive advantages of newer stores, broader product variety or better parking, trading stamps have ceased to be a decisive lure. This...
...Valley National of Glendale, Calif.), his "dozens" of oil wells, his stock portfolio, and his six-story office building in Glendale. He was still on the Mets's payroll as the club's "West Coast vice president"-or, in Stengel's words, "the highest-priced scout you've ever seen." Coach Wes Westrum would manage the team for the rest of 1965. After that-well, the Mets are accustomed to losing ball games, but it will take them a while to get adjusted to losing Casey...
...A.M.A., discussed with former World Bank President Eugene Black the U.S.'s development program in Southeast Asia, cracked jokes about how he recently outbowled Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, had coffee with a group of newswomen, gave two background briefings to White House reporters, and warmly greeted an explorer scout who had bicycled 2,800 miles from Idaho to shake the presidential hand. Then he flew off to Harry Truman's library in Independence, Mo., to sign the medicare bill, and followed that with a week-end visit to his ranch in Texas...
...would be temptingly easy to dismiss Col. John H. Glenn, Jr., U.S.M.C.(ret.) and astronaut as little more than a huge boy scout made good. Tall, tanned, fit, graceful, handsome, just shy enough, pleasant, polite, friendly, modest, sincere--just think of any epithet related to "clean-cut," and it probably applies to the colonel. A country lad who went to Muskingham College, a United Presbyterian Church school in his home town of New Concord, Ohio, married the girl a quarter of a mile down the road, joined the Marine Corps in 1941 and stayed for 18 years, Glenn seems about...