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...nation's capital was astir last week with rumors that the bombing of North Viet Nam has caused a deeply disquieting difference of opinion at the uppermost levels of the Johnson Administration. According to widespread chatter at Washington cocktail parties and in the corridors of Government buildings, the disagreement put Defense Secretary Robert McNamara on one side, plagued by doubts about the value of the bombing, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk on the other, supported by the President, the State Department and McNamara's own Pentagon...
Most entertaining is a kinetic, eight-minute Creation, astir with turbulent photography. Unfortunately, it is a long way from The Beginning to the end. The Word is interpreted altogether literally, neither revitalized with the logic of drama nor illuminated by the magic of myth. The film simply plunges ahead with quasi-King Jamesian narration, supplied by Playwright Christopher Fry and spoken by Huston himself, a mighty celestial circuit rider on the sound track. "God blessed them and said: Multiply," the voice intones, clearing the way for a shot of fuzzy, nuzzling seals and simultaneously raising questions of identity. There...
...fall's first week, the air was astir with talk of peace: pleas, proposals, propaganda of every hue. The dialogue yielded little hope of any quick, clean end to the conflict. It did, however, produce the most comprehensive, reasonable, and unequivocal statement of American policy to date...
Directing his fire west, Whitman found shop-lined Guadalupe Street, the main thoroughfare off campus?known locally as "The Drag"?astir with shoppers and strollers. Paul Sonntag, 18, lifeguard at an Austin pool and grandson of Paul Bolton, longtime friend of Lyndon Johnson and news editor of the Johnsons' Austin television station, was accompanying Claudia Rutt, 18, for a polio shot she needed before entering Texas Christian University. Claudia suddenly sank to the ground. Paul bent over her, then pitched to the sidewalk himself. Both were dead. A block north, Political Scientist Harry Walchuk, 39, a father...
TIME's cover story last Feb. 12 on the influential but little-known Soviet economics professor, Evsei Liberman, revealed that the winds of economic change were astir in the land of the Soviets-and that they were blowing from the West. The Russians predictably denied that they were edging toward that horrid condition of affairs called capitalism, and Liberman himself fired off a two-page cable (TIME LETTERS, March 5), spelling out his views...