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Show INTELLIGENCE: ninuec CONVENTION 2s: Democratic SECURITY Convention opens in Chicago later -this month, it will be the most heavily guarded in history. In addition to city and state police, National Guard and Army units as well as the Secret Service, the FBI and the CIA wil: be on hand. The International Amphitheatre where the convention will be held -unless last-minute circumstances cause a change -- is located in a Chicago Slum area where law enforcement officers fear anything from fire to seizure. Chicago's Democratic Mayor Richard J. Daley, known for his hard line against civil disorders as well as for his political ambitions, has announced that the city will not tolerate any convention disruptions. Daley is also determined to maintain the safety of Lyndon Johnson, who to date has become the most closely guarded U.S. President in history. DRINKING PREFERENCES ir: ern” Drinking Americans ing from gin to vodka. Last year 12.9 million cases of vodka were sold compared to 12.4 million cases of gin. In the traditional bourbon vs. Scotch contest, however, Americans still prefer bourbon, two to one. Coming up real strong is Mexican tequila, sales of which have increased 400% in the last five years. SUGGESTION cz Brewster, president of Yale, has come up with a provocative suggestion. Why not let those young men who object to fighting in Vietnam, join the United Nations Reserve and help maintain the peace in other trouble spots of the world? TRUDEAU,CANADA’S NEW PRIME MINISTER, TURNS ON THE CHARM FOR YOUNG ADMIRERS TRUDEAU Canada's new Prime Minister is a small, swinging, trim, balding, 48-year-old bachelor, three-quarters French, one-quarter Scottish, named Pierre Elliott Trudeau. He is a former law professor, an admitted bon vivant, a globe-trotter, an athlete, an instinctive politician whose style has been com- One of the virtues of the Volkswagen, best-selling foreign car in the U.S. (450,000 per year), used to be its sameness. Only minor changes were made in the beetle from year with "squareback" and "fastback" versions, plans to produce within the next year or so a new 4-door model, the VW 1700, which will go on sale overseas the fate of so many rival autos, "planned obso- before it's offered in this country. VW is more than a little afraid of the inroads now being wade in the world lescence," and the result market by Japan's auto was that it maintained manufacturers who are turn- to year. It did not suffer its value, depreciated than other cars. Of late, however, VW has improved its beetle less ing out 4-door sedans with automatic transmissions and 95 horsepower engines in the same price range. pared favorably with the late John F. Kennedy's. Trudeau has begun a review of Canada's traditional policies, plans to disengage his country from NATO, bring her closer to told that his left-wing background made him suspect, especially his attendance at a 1952 economic conference in Moscow where he was arrested for throwing snowballs at a statue of Lenin. Son of a Montreal lavyer who earned a small fortune in sagacious investments, Trudeau was educated at the University of Montreal, Harvard, the Sorbonne, and the London School of Economics. By nature he is an adventurer and explorer, has hiked through Red China, roamed Tibet, crossed the Himalayas, France and the U.S. and other swum the Bosporus. Not too nations of this hemisphere. One of Trudeau's major distinctions is that he is the only Canadian Prime Minister with a history of having been denied entrance to the U.S., a denial long Since rescinded. Many years ago, when Trudeau asked U.S. authorities to explain to him on what grounds he was being banned, he was long ago he tried to canoe from Florida to Cuba but was halted by the U.S. Coast Guard, whose officers did not find particularly Ss reasonable the romantic Trudeau explanation that he merely liked to challenge the ocean the way mountain climbers are anxious to challenge the mountains. —$————— re 15 |
