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Muscovites jokingly refer to Nixon as "Moscow's new chief architect...
...thought the war could not be won. But then Johnson dropped out of the race and Nixon figured that he did not need to take any dramatic stand on Viet Nam. Rejecting Whalen's speech, he adopted the Vietnamization policy urged by-of all people-Roger Hilsman, the architect of counterinsurgency during the Kennedy Administration. After quitting the State Department because of a disagreement with Dean Rusk, Hilsman was now offering advice to the Republican candidate, and the galling thing was, says Whalen, that Nixon took it. "Such promiscuous brain picking revealed in due course the near vacuum where...
...Zabriskie Point. The music began as a composition for synthesizer, ram's horn, flute, and a Yemenite trumpet recorded especially for the wedding. Then, to the melody of a flute song, Daria, in a purple velvet Navajo dress, walked to the bridal canopy designed by her father, Landscape Architect Lawrence Halprin. After the ceremonial crushing of the wineglass under Hopper's foot, everybody danced a hora to the traditional Hava Nagila-arranged for guitar and Congo drum...
...architect of two budgets, Shultz guessed wrong on both. He maintained that the economy needed no big increase in fiscal stimulus last year because he forecast that the gross national product would jump smartly to $1,065 billion; in fact, that prediction was $ 18 billion too optimistic. This year he helped persuade the President to boost the economy with a tax cut, but he underestimated the dampening effect of new withholding schedules. Partly as a result of this, his planned $38 billion budget deficit will be about $10 billion smaller, and some Government spending intended for this fiscal year...
...North Vietnamese hierarchy is Le Duan, the shrewd, remote first secretary of Hanoi's ruling Lao Dong (Workers) Party and ranking member of its Politburo. A nervous and intense man who grew up in what is now South Viet Nam, Le Duan is generally regarded as the chief architect of Hanoi's relentless crusade to take over the South. His pre-eminence is underscored by the fact that in recent weeks Hanoi newspapers have taken to calling him "Uncle" Le, an honorary title rarely used since the death of Ho Chi Minh...