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...Paul Donal Harkins, 57, who holds the top command in the one spot in the world where U.S. troops are involved in a shooting-if undeclared-war against Communists. Symbolic of his task are the three flags behind his desk: the U.S. Stars and Stripes, the yellow and red banner of South Viet Nam, and his red general's flag...
Meantime, the German press, which had joined most of the nation's politicians in denunciation of the price rise, began to have second thoughts about Erhard's tactics. Wrote the Banner Rundschau: "It is necessary to recall the basic foundations of our economy ... No Cabinet, no minister, no Bundestag faction can replace entrepreneurs' freedom of decision, no matter whether one regards those decisions as good...
...groups seemed simply dispirited. Thirty motorists in Boston turned on their headlights, followed a black station wagon filled with flowers through downtown Boston in a mock funeral staged by two women's peace groups. About 20 pickets huddled at Chicago's Congress and Michigan Avenues under a banner proclaiming: "Nuclear Tests Threaten Mankind." Admitted their leader: "It's awfully hard to keep up a sustained campaign." In Washington, Nobel Chemist Linus Pauling was among marchers outside the White House...
Tragic Blunder. Many papers and columnists shared the Wall Street Journal's incredulous despair. "A warning to all Americans," editorialized the 86-year-old Nashville Banner, "that the day of Free Enterprise is drawing to a close. Khrushchev could be right when he said: 'Your grandchildren will live under Socialism...
...Pilgrims, both refugees from the atomic attack on Hiroshima in 1945, carried a large banner reading: "Patients in bomb hospitals send their prayers...