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Most of the visitors chose to tour the Loeb Drama Center, called the most modern theatre in America. At an earlier briefing session with Robb, the reporters and editors were curious about what Harvard thought about Harvard's great involvement in governing the country and what the University intended to...
With his sunburned face the shade of a beet, Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson arrived home last week from his nearly 30,000-mile "fact-seeking" mission through Asia. The White House, emphasizing the importance of the trip, gave him a hero's welcome: John Kennedy dispatched a brace...
Chin-ups & Blivits. Like all other SAC operations, the airborne alert routine is fenced by narrow restrictions and standardized procedures. Briefing is held a week prior to scheduled takeoff. On take-off day, other crews run through the three-hour preflight checks on the alert bomber to lessen the fatigue...
The trouble began when well-intentioned Defense Secretary Robert McNamara called Pentagon correspondents to his office for a background briefing. McNamara had done some of his homework well: he made an impressive presentation of the current state of U.S. nuclear forces. Then, like Republican Defense Secretaries Neil McElroy and Tom...
Republicans on Capitol Hill took up last week where Ike left off. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (who pronounces "missiles" as "mizzles") wrote to McNamara asking for details of the briefing that had touched off the trouble. The Republican National Committee's newspaper Battle Line got out an extra...