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Soon the canh sat will be sweeping even wider. Last week the first graduating class from the new "field forces" division of the police was issued camouflage suits and automatic weapons. White uniforms are hardly suited for its mission: laying night ambushes for the Viet Cong in the jungles of enemy-infested Long An province...
...with Chairman Mao. Mao wishes that more Western businessmen would share that ardor, but his yearning has little more chance of fulfillment than that of the girls. Fewer countries sent delegations to the fair than in the past. While the range of goods that the Chinese showed off was wider, the quality showed only scant improvement. The Chinese-made suitcases were so heavy as to constitute a load in themselves, had unreliable locks. Many of the canned foods caused heartburn. The Chinese wines tasted like fruit juice...
...stiffer federal personal-security law, based on congressional power to regulate interstate commerce and enforce the Fourteenth Amendment. Finally, when local officials fail to act, the commission urges federal trials of racial crimes that violate state laws-thus removing such cases to federal juries that are picked from wider geographical areas. If the past is any guide, the outlook for these reforms is bright. In the commission's eight-year history, 75% of its recommendations have been adopted...
...aluminum industry is only a sacrificial symbol of Lyndon Johnson's wider war on inflation, which he feels he must wage to keep the economy healthy and to restore the balance of payments. The aluminum industry-one twenty-third the size of construction and one-tenth the size of automaking-is unlikely to cause an inflationary spiral by itself. Even some Government economists concede that the industry has as good a case as any for higher prices: it is earning a mere 4.9% on its investment, is running at 100% of its 2,700,000-ton capacity. Its price...
Singer decided that the ballpoint pen had become so common that Scripto's $1.98 model was overpriced, abolished it in favor of a wider-selling...