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...political ramifications of the U.S. involvement in Viet Nam are one thing; the war itself, as viewed from cockpits, rifle sights and radarscopes, is quite another. For the better part of a month, the Senate's Preparedness Subcommittee, under Mississippi's John Stennis, has been trying to assess the military effort through the testimony of the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff. Last week Air Force Chief J. P. McConnell had his saw-toothed say. It was predictably and powerfully in support of the air war in the North...
...place of a Dean in such a transformation is difficult to assess. A Dean's influence grows slowly, in subtle increments of choice, of recommendation, of support, of example. Over the years, however, a Dean can become a vital force, determining the direction his school takes. Griswold was such a Dean...
Though Ellsworth Bunker replaced him last April, it is still far too early to fully assess Lodge's performance in that difficult job. Author Miller does fairly note that in Viet Nam, as elsewhere, Lodge's occasional patrician arrogance often rubbed people the wrong way. But equally manifest are his common sense, his capacity for concentration and unremitting hard work, his decisiveness and clarity of thought. A difficult man. A rare one too. For unlike many others now in public life, Lodge still believes in an old-fashioned virtue: putting his country far above himself...
...month after la Drang, a top-level meeting of main-force Viet Cong and North Vietnamese officers convened in a jungle auditorium to assess the results purchased at the cost of over 1,500 of their...
...have the knack of picking people off the street who were the most volatile and leading them into making the most violent kind of statements," complains Newark Police Director Dominick A. Spina. The stations made no attempt to sort out the various agitators they put on-camera or assess their importance. "They picked on every black face who proclaimed himself a leader," says Donald Malafronte, administrative assistant to Mayor Addonizio. "Casuals who had never raised a voice in community affairs all of a sudden were spokesmen on television." TV newsmen disobeyed instructions to stay behind police lines. On one occasion...