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...campus custom went wrong at Dartmouth last weekend, and Bert Hughes is not too happy about...
...York Times (which has been known to spare two paragraphs deep inside to report the winner), Miss America annually blooms like a crop of late summer corn. The second Saturday night in September always finds more than 60 million televiewers tuning in as, live from Atlantic City, Bert Parks opens the last envelope, milks the last drop of suspense, announces the winner and launches the pageant's theme song: There...
McNamara agonized much more than he let on. The day after the Viet Cong raid on Pleiku, Hébert asked him why the U.S. could not even defend an airbase. "Because we don't have enough people," replied McNamara. "Why don't you get them?" demanded Hébert. "Because more men would be killed." "How many?" "Two hundred and fifty thousand," said McNamara with finality. It was a price that he was unwilling to pay. He wanted to have it both ways: victory and humanity. It was not an easy mix, and even...
...being built by McDonnell-Douglas. Thus, cancellation of one craft might well price the other out of reach. A decision on whether or not to go ahead with the F-14 is due this week, when the military procurement bill reaches the House floor. F. Edward Hébert, Armed Services Committee chairman, has promised to offer amendments to the bill as recommended by a forthcoming Pentagon report on the F14. The report will almost certainly urge a drawn-out production schedule, providing fewer planes than the Navy would like and at higher costs than originally projected. Whether...
...continuing cut and thrust over CBS's The Selling of the Pentagon last week got closer to the matter of "cut and paste" in Vice President Spiro Agnew's phrase. Representative F. Edward Hébert, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, filed an official complaint with the Federal Communications Commission, charging that the documentary's producers misleadingly edited film in order to disparage the Pentagon's publicity effort (TIME, April 5). Representative Harley Staggers not only complained to the FCC but also threatened to open an inquiry by his Special Subcommittee on Investigations...