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...plot a return to power. Jadid has lately been at odds with the civilians through whom he rules. Chief of State Noureddin Attassi, who is believed to favor a somewhat more conciliatory policy toward Israel, recently walked angrily out of a conference with the generals. In a Cabinet shake-up this month, Jadid gave four comparatively minor jobs to moderates, but actually consolidated the control of the most important posts in the hands of his Baathist cronies...
...what most people don't know is there are many crops around without machines to pick them. For instance, a machine to pick plums would have to wrap itself around the trunk and shake the plums down. So it has not been invented yet, and neither has a grape-picking machine. And this is where the real story begins...
Getting Iffy. One Republican who did not waver in his support of the President's Viet Nam policy was Everett Dirksen. The scramble among his fellow Republicans to dissociate themselves from Johnson's war policy prompted him to shake his head. "They're all getting iffy. I don't know what the hell's wrong with them," he complained last week. "The fellows in uniform over there aren't going to appreciate it one damn...
...need to hunt for the enemy; he is all around, waiting for an opportunity to strike an unwary patrol, a lumbering convoy or one of the camps itself. The Marines mostly sit and wait, cramped in muddy bunkers and trenches. Day and night their 105-and 155-mm. howitzers shake the hilltops as they fire into the DMZ and into North Viet Nam beyond to interdict the Communist buildup and southward movement; day and night the dread cry of "Incoming!" rings through the camps as the Communists return the shells. It is a deadly duel of giant cannon more akin...
...wide suspenders, and a long, lachrymose mouth curved like an inverted halfmoon. The legislature was honoring him with a special resolution offering "warm gratitude for the pleasure he has brought to the world." Replied Clown Emmett Kelly, 68: "I wish I could hug and kiss every woman here and shake hands with every man." Later, Kelly met his match in another seasoned performer, Governor Ronald Reagan, and, after an exchange of show-bizzy sallies, begged off: "Don't make me laugh, Governor. I can't be seen smiling...