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This should not astound President Johnson. For Mr. Dirksen is at least as consistent a party booster as he is a leader of Congressional reactionaries on foreign policy. Mr. Johnson should realize, however, that the hawkish wing of the G.O.P.--epitomized by the snake-haired Illinoisan--is seriously tinkering with the idea of proclaiming their candidate, most likely Richard Nixon, an apostle of peace as a 1968 election maneuver...
...Crowther has never been predictable. Producers were seldom confident as to how he would react. He appreciated small-scale, low-budget efforts like David & Lisa; yet he also praised Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra as "one of the great epic films of our day." An early, ardent booster of foreign films, he helped win acceptance for them in the U.S. with appreciative reviews of Open City and Bicycle Thief...
Adams climbed into its cockpit last week for his seventh flight. His craft was carrying instruments to collect micrometeorites, determine which of the sun's rays are absorbed by the atmosphere, and test an experimental coating for a Saturn rocket booster. It was the X-15's 191st flight since the U.S. first used it to explore the fringes of space in 1959 and, by the exacting standards of the men who fly the X-15, it was a routine mission...
...publicly championing another military man: Major General Yitzhak Rabin, 45, the present Israeli chief of staff. Eshkol has declared that Rabin, not Dayan, deserves the major credit for Israel's stunning victory. And indeed he does. Dayan's appointment to the Cabinet was unquestionably a morale booster, but Rabin was the commander in the field. He was the man responsible for the superb condition of the army...
While most U.S. corporations are continually on the prowl for ripe acquisition possibilities, merger fever is just beginning to infect Britain, which still abounds with inefficient, low-profit companies that duplicate products and services. Ironically, the Socialist government has been the primary booster of a trend toward bigger business, and in 1966 formed the Industrial Reorganization Corporation to promote and help finance regroupings in industry. As it happens, the chief beneficiaries of the government-sponsored merger wave are groups of experts who act as brokers for companies in search of a good...