A Letter From The Publisher: Jul. 26, 1968

What presidential candidate insists that he keeps in trim by obeying his grandmother's injunction and eating cottage cheese laced with ketchup "until it runs out of my ears"? The answer can be found in this week's cover story. Such offbeat and often unexpected bits of information can be found in almost every section of the magazine, in almost every issue. A sampling from this week's stock:

Why is the mayor of a charming medieval French village threatening to paint its buildings red, blue and green? And why does la Patronne want the one word, Ouf!, on her tombstone? See THE WORLD, The...

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