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...join you in your tribute to an outstanding soldier and great American, Lieut. General William C. Westmoreland [May 8]. Having served for more than two years as "Westy's" executive officer with the 34th Field Artillery, 9th Infantry Division, both at Fort Bragg and in North Africa and Sicily, I can testify to the fact that he is a leader who brings to our Viet Nam campaign soldiering that inspires the men who serve with him, and a wisdom in war which in my opinion is unsurpassed. In World War II, his officers and men called him "Superman...
...tensions that had been building for decades erupted into murder. In Ghana, where he was entertaining Red China's Chou Enlai, Kwame Nkrumah worked relentlessly toward his goal of achieving a one-party dictatorship. In the Congo, the old bogy of secession once again threatened. And on the 34th day of independence for the clove-scented island of Zanzibar, revolt spilled hopes and blood into the azure Indian Ocean...
...number of Americans holding down jobs swelled to 70 million, and the average paycheck was heftier than ever before. All this added up to a gross national product of $584 billion-a very respectable $29 billion more than last year. As 1963 ended, the U.S. economy was in the 34th month of recovery, and only a few months away from producing the longest sustained peacetime recovery since World War II. Few doubted that that record, too, would shortly be shattered...
...faster than most history makers manage it, the 34th President of the U.S. has produced his documented recollections of the men and events that are still well-remembered headlines to all but junior readers. Dwight Eisenhower's account of his first term in office (1953-56) is fat, flat and informal. Eisenhower is no Churchill. There is neither the thunder of oratory nor the sweep of history here. Instead, there is the sense of an earnest man trying to do his best. Admirers will find in its unadorned prose the reassuring image of the President who tried...
HERE'S LOVE. Meredith Willson's Music Man bounce has deserted him in this musical adaptation of the movie Miracle on 34th Street. It may be Christmas time in the script, but the show has all the festive gaiety of Maundy Thursday...