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...rate, U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen certainly thought so. When D'Astier suggested that the North Vietnamese protect themselves against bombing by staking out American prisoners as hostages near factories and villages, Chip Bohlen blew his stack. At a half-hour meeting last week with French Minister of State Louis Joxe, Bohlen protested D'Astier's use of French government transmitters for his "virulent attack." The French shrugged away the complaint, insisting that TV producers were free to present the news as they...
Childproof. All this is rapidly changing the record business. The record companies theorize that once a motorist accumulates a stack of cartridges for his car, he will want to play them in his living room as well. Thus, the companies estimate that stereo cartridges will surpass today's sales of records within a few years. RCA Victor has so far sold 1,500,000 cartridges, and Columbia, Mercury, Decca and Capitol have recently brought out their eight-track-cartridge lines...
Poetry, like steam, is made under pressure. In Russia the pressure of totalitarian control on a rapidly enlarging spirit of freedom keeps poetry hissing-hot. Evgeny Evtushenko first blew his stack back in 1957, and since then vigorous young poets have come geysering out of the masses with a frequency alarming to the Soviet regime...
...published in Seventeen and Mademoiselle. She won a scholarship to Smith, where she made straight A's. But her feelings took their revenge. At 19, after an unhappy month in New York City, she ran home to Wellesley, Mass., crawled under the front porch, hid behind a stack of kindling, and swallowed 50 sleeping pills. Three days later she was found, alive but in ghastly condition. "They had to call and call," she wrote later, "and pick the worms off me like sticky pearls...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). John Paul Jones has Robert Stack playing the naval hero, Charles Coburn as Ben Franklin, Macdonald Carey as Patrick Henry, Jean Pierre Aumont as Louis XVI, and Bette Davis as Catherine the Great. But they had "not yet begun to fight" when they ran out of film...