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Stormy Campaign. After serving as a gunnery officer in the Navy during World War II, Vance joined the prestigious New York City law firm of Simpson, Thatcher and Bartlett. His professional life changed course in 1957 when he became special counsel to the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee. Vance caught the appraising eye of the chairman-L.B.J. In 1961 John F. Kennedy made him general counsel of the Department of Defense. There Secretary Robert S. McNamara soon put his talents to work in his stormy campaign to bring more efficiency to the Pentagon...
...nearly a decade, this has been NATO's standard scenario of an East-West war. Today, however, concern is mounting, especially among West Europeans, that this is dangerously outdated. After a recent inspection of NATO installations, Senators Sam Nunn and Dewey Bartlett of the Senate Armed Services Committee charged that Soviet forces in Europe could now mount a surprise attack, blitz their way past NATO's defenses and reach the Rhine in 48 hours. Reported the Senators: "Should the NATO alliance fail to improve its conventional war-fighting capabilities ... the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies soon...
Bobby Thompson shot an 85 while freshman Gene Purdy had an 86. Dave Paxton turned in an 88 to lose his match and three dollars in a side wager with McNealy. John Bartlett...
...meteorological vagaries commanded unusual attention, part of the explanation may have been that in many other respects the news was exceptionally good. In a Voice of America discussion beamed overseas, such panelists as Columnist Charles Bartlett and Political Demographer Richard Scammon were startled by their unwonted optimism about America's future. For the first time in a long time, the panelists later agreed, they had been talking about the country in terms that were almost totally positive. How come? asked the program's moderator. Scammon replied that, though a great many problems remained to be solved and though...
...Hagen's aging caddy, still languishing in the Rochester caddy yard, Hagen's antics are still a vivid reality. Bartlett becomes excited by simply recounting the favorite epigram of Hagen's aging chronicler: "He always used to tell the story about how Hagen showed up one morning on the first tee wearing a tuxedo...