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...sail ($465) or outboard ($250). Because of a thick bottom layer of polyurethane foam, it will not capsize with a 145-lb. boy standing on its gunwale, nor sink when filled with water and two beefy men. Total weight: 90 lbs. Lighter still is the 10-ft. 4-in. Swift, George O'Day's bid for a slice of the sailboard market. Only 80 lbs., the Swift costs $250, features a self-bailing cockpit and toeholds for hiking...
That is how Jonathan Swift defined the necessary conditions for ending a war. There is no sign that these conditions have been reached in Viet Nam. The U.S. is certainly not yielding the point it is contending for-the independence of South Viet Nam-and has certainly not concluded that this goal is impossible to attain. Conversely, the enemy does not appear ready to yield his point either-that the U.S. must be driven out of Viet Nam-and, as far as anyone can tell so far, has not been persuaded that this goal is unattainable...
...already clear that the war will be the central issue of this year's elections-as it should be. Few could dispute Lyndon Johnson's swift, determined action in meeting the Communist challenge. But it is also becoming a major day-to-day concern of all Americans. Thus far, the President has dealt effectively with the Vietniks and isolationists on the one hand and on the other with those who urge that North Viet Nam be bombed "back to the Stone Age." His chief failure has been one of articulation. He is, after all, no Churchill...
...mail hurtles along its appointed rounds in swift trucks, trains and planes. As soon as it hits a post office, though, the mail creeps through the hands of human sorters who faced 72 billion pieces of mail last year. To speed up sorting, the Post Office Department is pinning its hopes on a new electronic gadget: an optical scanner that reads machine-printed addresses and sorts mail 15 times faster than the most efficient postal clerk. Introduction of the device, says Postmaster General Larry O'Brien, "is as much an historical event as the issuance of the first...
...official one," Volpe declared as he pushed the bill to the side and slid another copy from his desk. "Now here's the unofficial one so the T.V. boys can take a few pictures." Volpe then grabbed a handful of pens from the desk and began making swift, but imaginative, doodles at the bottom of the paper with one pen after another. It was about two dozen of these pens that he gave away to onlookers, including Galbraith and Pusey...