Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson became the first to publish a widely circulated notion that Kennedy, immediately after the accident, had Joe Gargan, his cousin, agree to "admit to driving the car." The columnists said that Ted Kennedy, Markham and Gargan returned to the Dike Bridge "to make certain that Gargan would be totally familiar with the circumstances surrounding 'his' unfortunate accident." But "in the cold light of dawn," say Pearson and Anderson, the Senator "decided to face the consequences himself." Whatever its implausibilities, the story would explain why Kennedy might have wished to establish an alibi...
Military officials readily admit that their communications equipment is not at fault. The blame rests on human errors in the sending and routing of messages-and in acting on available information. One tragic mistake occurred in June 1967 when the Joint Chiefs of Staff ordered the spy ship U.S.S. Liberty to leave its station in the Mediterranean off the Sinai Peninsula. The message failed to arrive until after Israeli jets attacked Liberty, mistaking it for an Egyptian vessel. Thirty-four U.S. sailors were killed in the attack. A woman clerk in the Pentagon had routed the Liberty order...
...officers in Viet Nam are reluctant to use the term "lull" for the lack of contact with the Communists, but they readily admit that all their military indicators are down. Since June 29, weekly American fatalities have held below 200. During the last reporting period, July 20 to 26, 110 Americans died, the lowest toll so far this year. Communist attacks in III Corps, the vital area around Saigon, have dropped from a daily average of 30 in May to 25 in June and 15 in July. The other three corps areas report a similar trend. Nightly shellings of allied...
...with the Communist post-Tet offensive. This time, however, more seems to be involved. "This lull is not merely one of statistics, but more of gut feeling," reports TIME Correspondent Burton Pines from Saigon. "Some of the highest American military commanders, after citing caveats drawn from previous lulls, will admit that something is now different...
...began debating in his small, neat handwriting whether he should chuck the whole thing and put in for home. But he noted that he needed the $12,000 prize money to solve his financial problems. Depressed and once physically ill, he devoted long passages to his inability to admit failure, even when he realized it was certain. "Superficial assessments of success or failure are worthless," he rationalized...