Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supposed to be a hero to his valet, and Sorensen was Kennedy's intellectual valet too long for his praise to seem altogether honest. Richard Neustadt has called the book a lawyer's brief for the Kennedy Presidency, but no good lawyer would have written it this way, as Kennedy himself knew. Schlesinger shows him reading Eisenhower's memoirs and clucking that Ike apparently hadn't made any mistakes, and saying he wasn't about to write his own book that...
...what had rarely been attempted before in Viet Nam-a hunting expedition to seek out and destroy the retreating Reds rather than let them escape to fight again on their own terms. For a fortnight, the troopers of the 1st Air Cavalry got lots of blistered feet, fought some brief skirmishes and took some prisoners, but made no real contact with the enemy. The chance of real battle seemed lost until last week, when the U.S. abruptly found its foe in the shadow of Chu Pong Mountain (see map). The result was the first major encounter between U.S. and North...
...Deller became a crack soccer and cricket player for the Kent County team. He began singing with the church choir at ten, but when his voice failed to change significantly after six years, the choirmaster advised him to quit lest he permanently injure his vocal cords. He had a brief fling with the local opera company but left because the director made him rehearse with the ladies' chorus. He took a job in a Sussex furniture store and married the owner's daughter...
Played by the Philadelphia Orchestra, it was a rewarding achievement worth the waiting. The long, tragically beautiful opening theme is shot through with un utterable sadness. The rambling and slightly diffuse second and fourth move ments bracket a brief, mocking middle movement entitled Purgatorio...
...Foreign Trade Council last week called for their abolition. Almost simultaneously, Treasury Secretary Fowler, Commerce Secretary John Connor and William McChesney Martin Jr., chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, appeared together to announce some bad but expected news: the nation's balance of payments, after running a brief surplus in the second quarter, showed a $485 million deficit during the third quarter. That was 30% larger than the Administration had expected. As a result, the controls on business spending abroad will be sharpened and tightened. The 500 big U.S. corporations involved in the program will be asked next year...