Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ideal time for Lyndon Johnson to hit the campaign trail, and so he did - with a bang. Displaying all the old evangelistic fervor of his 1964 campaign, the President made a fast-paced overnight foray into Maryland, New York and Delaware, at week's end prepared for a brief, last-minute appearance in Pennsylvania...
That night, after a brief appearance at a Columbus Day parade on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, Johnson made an eloquent plea for interracial understanding at a Brooklyn gathering of Italian-American businessmen. Reminding his audience that Italian immigrants had once experienced "the raw pain of discrimination" that is felt by Negroes today, L.B.J. added: "I ask those of you who have crossed the river to extend to them a helping hand...
With action still sporadic, the Leathernecks found time last week to receive Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who had flown to South Viet Nam for his eighth inspection trip since the war began heating up in 1962. As usual, McNamara spent the first two days in the briefing rooms of Saigon. Then, again as usual, he climbed into khakis and scuffed brown desert boots for a two-day whirl through American units stationed all over the country. He listened to reports on Operation Irving from Air Cav officers in the central swamplands, watched A-4 Skyhawks being catapulted off the deck...
...little as 10 million years-a brief interlude in the solar system's 4½-billion-year history-Triton could begin its final plunge toward Neptune's surface. Only one event could prevent the terrible impact, says McCord: a phenomenon that may have occurred before in the solar system. Neptune's gravity could break Triton into little pieces as it draws near, turning the satellite into a set of Saturnlike rings...
...Loves of Cass McGuire, by Brian Friel, whispers along for three feeble acts, but it has no secret to tell. It whispers of dead young brides and deaf old crones, of dreams, fantasies and betrayals, of the brief pleasure and passing pain some men give some women, and of how the life of the old drowns in memory. The bitter beauty of human existence that irradiated Playwright Friel's Philadelphia, Here I Come! last season nowhere shines in this play...