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Attempting to settle one of the Pentagon's bitterest interservice quarrels, Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy last week outlined a "master plan" for U.S. continental air defense. What it amounted to was a shaky compromise between rival antiaircraft missiles, the Army's Nike-Hercules and the Air Force Bomarc. The solution satisfied hardly anyone, and the grumbles both from Capitol Hill and the Pentagon reflected an increasingly apparent fact: for Neil Hosler McElroy, sometime president of Procter & Gamble, one of the longest of all Washington honeymoons is ending...
...whose governmental career Anderson has sworn to end. Despite Anderson's optimism, the outcome of that battle was still in cliff-hanging doubt, with the decision likely to swing on two or three Senate votes-and with the U.S. already the loser in one of the biggest, bitterest, and in many ways most unseemly confirmation fights in Senate history...
...unusual step in bringing in a special counsel for the hearing. Committee and counsel called only hostile witnesses, gave Strauss no notice of who would be appearing against him. With witnesses day after day pouring personal rancor into the headlines, the weird sessions added up to one of the bitterest attacks on a presidential Cabinet appointee in the nation's history...
...this week, with neither side giving an inch, the Globe-Democrat strike had become one of the longest and bitterest in recent U.S. journalism...
Lance Reventlow, a handsome, mop-headed youth of 22, was born to money and scheduled for regular space in the Sunday supplements. The son of Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton and Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow of Denmark, young Lance was the pawn in one of the longest and bitterest custody fights in café society history. During the course of his tumultuously abnormal upbringing, he seemed destined to develop a taste for high life and supercharged women. Instead, he devoted his energies to fast cars. While other rich young men danced and drank the night through, Lance got his regular eleven...