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...leadership" to end the war. He prides himself on his grasp of foreign policy and is expected to act pretty much as his own Secretary of State- after a thoroughgoing shakedown at Foggy Bottom. According to his staff, he will increase Government spending from the current annual level of $185 billion to $220 billion by the end of his four-year Administration. Defense spending would increase by $10 billion (to $87 billion), notwithstanding an anticipated halving of Viet Nam expenditures from the current $30 billion annual level. The extra funds would be used to finance a volunteer army and costly...
...some ways, politicians do this better than other losers, perhaps because they can plan ahead in multi-annual cycles. Nixon's switch from defeat to law to renomination is a case in point. In his years of political exile between the wars, Winston Churchill distracted himself from defeat by tapping a wide range of other interests: painting, bricklaying, authorship and breeding butterflies. At the same time, he never once doubted his capacity to lead the nation...
...gathered on the promenade of the channel resort town of Brighton, jostling for a look down the road that led from London. At last, the first car appeared. Then another and another. Finally, after eight hours, the last of some 250 pre-1905 cars to make the annual 50-mile "Old Crocks' Race," puffed, wheezed and whistled into town, piloted by a collection of antique-car buffs who consider themselves the royalty of the auto world. Appropriately enough, some real royalty was on hand for the proceedings: Monaco's Prince Rainier, at the wheel...
...Kansas City, Mo. Rollie was the salesman of the team that started printing postcards with a $474 investment in 1907, then, by dreaming up greetings or condolences for every occasion, grew into a firm that now produces more than 7,000,000 cards a day, with an estimated annual sale of $200 million. Died. Edward R. Burke, 87, Democratic Senator from Nebraska from 1935-41, who started as a New Dealer, but soon opposed F.D.R.'s attempts to pack the Supreme Court, levy a progressive income tax, and protect labor unions, thus losing his party's nomination...
Near closing time in the dining room of St. Louis' Gateway Hotel last week, six customers were lingering over their table. "Why don't you boys get out so I can go home?" said the white woman cashier. Unfortunately, the "boys" happened to be delegates to the annual conference of the National Committee of Black Churchmen, which was being held in the hotel. In protest against what they considered a racial slight, the 400 black ministers attending the meeting stalked out of the Gateway and finished their convention in an Episcopal church. The incident typified not only...