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...week's end Humphrey landed in Australia to spend two days before making the last stops of his 15-day journey in New Zealand, the Philippines-where President Ferdinand Marcos anticipated his arrival by asking his Congress to send 2,000 troops to South Viet Nam-and South Korea. At an official luncheon in Canberra, Harold Holt, Australia's new Prime Minister, gave him such a warm introduction that the tanned but tired traveler confessed: "You touched the favorite nerve cell in my body-namely, the talking cell." Whereupon the Vice President delivered yet another speech. He reassured...
...Chicago, Greenwich Village and the syndicalist meeting halls of Seattle, until he came at last to the big rock candy mountains of San Francisco. From the time he was an eagle scout in Toledo, Ohio-operating, he claims, from what must have been the only left-wing gangsterized troop in America-Rexroth's big German-American farm boy's face shone with the vocation of the radical outsider proud of belonging to people who have no belongings. Whether he was selling snake oil to farmers in the Southwest (his three-page sales pitch is a masterpiece...
...stepmother," and the lady herself, Denise Minnelli, would be the last to deny it. So when Liza Minnelli, 19, her husband Vincente's daughter by his marriage to Judy Garland, opened at the Persian Room of Manhattan's Plaza Hotel there was Denise with a lustily applauding troop of 85 show-biz and cafesociety friends. Not that the gal who knocked them dead in Flora the Red Menace needed a private cheering section. After a dozen or so songs, that old belter Ethel Merman rushed over to embrace Liza. "She was absolutely fabulous!" cried Ethel. "That child...
...Drang last November. In that fight, he held together a single infantry battalion surrounded by three battalions of North Vietnamese regulars. This time he was the aggressor, leading the largest allied force of the war: five infantry battalions, four artillery battalions, plus a team of combat engineers and a troop of aerial reconnaissance men, all riding the helicopters of the most mobile force warfare has ever known...
...draft certainly has enough inequities for everyone, but it is about the best method available for filling the nation's present manpower needs, which include troop commitments around the world as well as in Viet Nam. The only reasonable alternative is universal military service, which might take practically every youth for about a year and use him for various military and nonmilitary tasks, including learning skills, serving in the Peace Corps or joining work camps. The trouble with U.M.T. is that it would be far too expensive and inefficient, would produce more young men (about...