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Aliens at Home. Under the bill, natives stand to be converted into virtual aliens outside their tribal reservations and shuttled between "white areas" like a mobile labor pool. An expanded network of government labor bureaus and "aid centers" is to decide where all 7,000,000 African laborers will work, and at what tasks. If an African doesn't take a job offered him, he will be immediately "endorsed out"-the term under which the regime banishes undesirable natives back to their villages...
Alice and Eric were virtual prisoners for the next two weeks. If Eric telephoned Alice he was curtly told she wasn't home. If she called him, she received the same treatment. They wrote each other, and their letters were intercepted...
Assessing the scientific problems facing the Johnson Administration, International Science and Technology was not overly inspired by President Johnson's new scientific adviser. "Donald Hornig of Princeton is a virtual stranger on the Washington scene," sniffed the monthly magazine. That's a dirty fib, piped up one who thought he ought to know. Said Chris Hornig, 10, in a fiery, pencil-written letter-to-the-editor: "In a past issue you said that Donald Hornig was a virtual stranger to Washington. My father has served for three Presidents, and is in Washington so much that...
...their Vietnamese brother foes, the Viet Cong offered a respite, proclaiming a five-day cease-fire during Tet, Viet Nam's festive New Year's holiday. Going along with the Reds, the government called a virtual halt to its own military operations. Troops poured into Saigon exploding firecrackers and firing rifles into the air (to ward off evil spirits), and the war ground to a strange near-standstill...
Beyond the foyer, the walls are a virtual tapestry of contemporary art; the furniture, mostly antique except for braces of modern Mies and Eames chairs, cowers in the center of the rooms to make place for paintings. Even Scull's eldest son, Jonathan, 15, covers the walls of his room with his own collection of junior-sized examples of Pop that he buys by installments with his allowance. The apartment is so cluttered with art derived from familiar objects that frequently guests pick up an ordinary cigarette box and ask who the artist...