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WASHINGTON, D.C. Jan. 31--Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today that the bombing of North Vietnam is a "psychological blunder" and called for prudent de escalation...
...would have been easier on Artist Peter Kurd [Jan. 13] if L.B.J. shared Robert Burns's sentiment: "Oh wad some power the giftie gie us. To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us. An' foolish notion...
This savage indictment of U.S. medical practice forms the theme of The Doctors, a book probably headed for bestsellerdom. Its message seems to be that the ailing human being should keep his malaise a secret from the medical profession; otherwise, the doctor will surely blunder, the emergency ward will let him bleed to death, a careless hospital will expose him to infection and, if none of these death agents succeed, some nurse will administer a fatally inaccurate prescription...
What Wally Wanted. Beaverbrook is at his sprightly and informative best when he sticks to a straight narrative of the events that eventually led to the abdication. He felt, as did most other insiders, that Edward made his greatest strategic blunder when he stated in November that unless Baldwin and his government approved a morganatic marriage with Mrs. Simpson, he would not go through with his coronation in May. Both Beaverbrook and Winston Churchill advised him to put aside his marriage plans until after the coronation, and then press his demands with the power of the throne behind him. Edward...
...room, Alford moved the false news. At 4:33, A.P. sent a bulletin to its 8,500 members reporting that Meredith was dead-and 21 minutes later a fuller paragraph went out, repeating that Meredith had been killed from ambush. For a little more than half an hour the blunder stood. Finally Alford asked an Appeal staffer: "You do have Meredith dead, don't you?" And at 5:08, A.P. got off the overdue correction bulletin...