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Only a year ago, Wisconsin's Senator Gaylord Nelson said in a moment of frustration: "We all know that the two biggest words in the English language are 'national defense.' If you just shout them loud enough, you are in the clear. It is just plain unpatriotic to question any appropriation for national defense. Defense against what? It does not matter. Just utter the magic words." Nelson's complaint was not considered much of an exaggeration ?only a year ago. Now, suddenly, the words seem to have lost their magic. Now another Senator notes that wherever he goes...
...general, the spending process that has grown up in the past 20 years has all but got out of control. Though the Budget Bureau is supposed to run an independent check of all proposed expenditures by Government agencies, it has accorded the Defense Department, the biggest spender of them all, special treatment that results in considerable freedom from stringent review. Congress, with its key military and appropriations committees headed by promilitary Southerners, has occasionally voted more money than the Pentagon requested. When McNamara announced the closing of 80 installations in 1964, he received 169 protests from Congressmen that same...
...biggest hits of this season, the off Broadway play Little Murders and the Broadway musical 1776 looked ready to be counted among the losers before they opened. The former had already failed once in New York (on Broadway in 1967, when it flopped in seven performances); the latter got mediocre reviews during its road tryout, had no big names among its cast or credits, and opened in New York to almost no advance ticket sales...
Harvard lost the other matches by very close scores. Number three man, Jack Purdy, who was two up with two to go on the 17th hole, suffered the biggest disappointment. On the par three 17th hole, the Navy man lifted a beautiful drive that hit the pin and landed a foot away. He sunk the putt for a birdie. Purdy parred the hole...
...year contracting company into the nation's 14th largest corporation, with sales last year of $2.8 billion. And its takeover last summer of Pittsburgh's J. & L.-whose sales of $900 million make it the nation's sixth largest steel producer -was the biggest conglomerate merger in history. J. & L. stock was selling for about $50 before the merger; Ling paid $85 a share, or $425 million, for a 63% holding. It is quite likely that he not only overpaid but overextended himself in the process...