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...Softer Line. One reason for the President's heavy reliance on the Big Three is that he can rarely depend on top congressional Democrats for the kind of support on Viet Nam that Bundy, McNamara and Rusk give him. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, for example, treads a far softer line, and only last week Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright was calling for a halt to U.S. air strikes. It was Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, in fact, who took to the Senate floor to defend Johnson's policy against Fulbright by declaring...
...what does she do? Does she ugly up her voice, play the sex queen, scatter knowing winks? Not a bit of it. She just stands there and sings--throwing in a few minute gestures. And as the song gets grizzlier she sings softer and softer, until she's almost whispering--about piles of dead bodies. It was chilling...
...women's shoe styles stress comfort at the expense of sleekness, and emphasize a "little-girl look," with ankle straps and conspicuous buttons, buckles and bows. Needle-nosed tips have been replaced by rounder, softer toes, and heels are becoming even shorter and wider. At the same time, somewhat alarmingly, teen-age boys are taking to high heels. International Shoe has had a runaway success with its "Beatle Boots," which have 11-in. tapered heels; Melville Shoe Co. (Thorn McAn) has brought out a boot with a 2-in. tapered heel, also offers the teens zebra stripes and wildly...
...partly animal and want to become wholly human." He makes his misshapen minotaurs, therefore, into symbols for man's stressful present. Bernard Meadows, 50, who assisted Moore from 1936 to 1939, also produces bronzes suggestive of figures withdrawn into abstraction. Tough, crablike carapaces cover highly polished softer forms like defenses for a vulnerable humanity...
Cherub-faced Mike Haider is an oilman of a different stripe than his predecessor. Rathbone came up as a refinery man, was a tough administrator. "If you ask if I like to leave," he growled last week, "the answer is 'Hell, no.' " Softer-spoken North Dakotan Haider, a Stanford graduate ('27) in chemical engineering, is a research and exploration expert; among other Jersey jobs, he brought in Imperial Oil's Leduc No. 1 in Alberta, the find that started western Canada's oil boom in 1947. Despite their different backgrounds, Haider (whose salary will soon...