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What NORAD's deterrent effect amounts to is something else again. Far from cloaking the new COC in secrecy, the Air Force seems bent on letting the world in on its every detail. This week's press tours include many foreigners. A large sign has been erected beside a highway near Cheyenne Mountain blatantly informing motorists that they are approaching the heart of North America's air-defense system. The message to trigger-happy aggressors should be as obvious as that roadside sign: NORAD's invulnerable new mountain of preparedness guards some of the most impressive...
Naturally, that put East Coach Red Auerbach in something of a bind. In real life, Red coaches the World Champion Boston Celtics-and three of his Celtics were playing for the East. Since the game was in Cincinnati, Auerbach bent over backwards to be fair, care fully parceled out equal court time to each of the East players. "There's only one ball, fellows," Red sighed unhappily. "You've got to remember the spot I'm in." Auerbach's Celtic star Bill Rus sell, who drives an $11,500 Mercedes-Benz, did his bit to help...
...gibes that the Americans in Viet Nam are "imperialists" bent on fighting a "white man's war," Saigon's threatened government did not see the arriving soldiers as devils but as deliverers. Nonetheless, Westmoreland constantly advises his men to remember their proper role there. "Saigon's sovereignty must be honored, protected and strengthened," he insists. "In 1954 this was a French war. Now it is a Vietnamese war, with us in support. It remains, and will remain just that." Nothing proves his point so eloquently as the casualty figures. In 1965 the U.S. suffered 1,241 killed...
...qualities of discipline, will power and deep faith that make General Johnson [Dec. 10] an outstanding man are the qualities that Western intellectuals seem bent on destroying. With their preaching of self-indulgence, they constitute a greater threat than Communism. Americans can be thankful they have leaders like Harold Johnson...
...Moore, surgeon-in-chief of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, was honored for his book Give and Take, a progress report on developments in tissue transplantation...