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...Coast Guard radio station at Pungo, Va., picked up a nervous call. Speaking in broken English, the caller said that he was aboard the 26 de Julio, a small (943 tons) Cuban cargo vessel that normally hauls freight and cattle between Havana and Montreal. Would the Coast Guard al low the ship to put in to port at Norfolk "to discharge people who are seek ing political asylum...
...rumors were whipped up by an anonymous telephone call four days later to one of William Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee staffers. The caller urged the committee to investigate the reason why Columbia University Physicist Richard Garwin and several other nuclear-weapons experts had been sent recently on a secret mission to Viet Nam. Hence Fulbright's letter to Rusk-who brusquely denied that the Garwin mission had anything to do with nuclear weapons...
...Galbraith, 59, a Harvard economist whose power of persuasion and talent for popularization are as noteworthy as his Brobdingnagian size (he is 6 ft. 8 in.), offers more convincingly than almost anyone else the respectable alternative that Johnson has repeatedly demanded of his attackers. He is neither a name caller nor a placard carrier. He is no Mary McCarthy, who fatuously insists that it is the intellectual's duty merely to oppose the war, without deigning to suggest how it ought to be ended. Nor does he resemble those clergymen whose justifiable indignation at the war's barbarities is diluted...
Slogans Sell. At 33, the gaunt, olive-skinned attorney (Harvard Law, '58) is a new kind of lobbyist on the Washington legislative scene. As chief caveat caller to Emptor Americanus, he has no constituency but the American consumer, no financial backing beyond what he can generate from lectures and writing (his auto-safety book, Unsafe at Any Speed, sold 450,000 hard-cover and paperback copies, earned him $55,000). Nader's success is largely due to his unerring flair for phrasemaking, backed by diligent research. A self-taught speed reader, he flips through thousands of pages...
Most of the time fewer than the maximum 32 are in use, and the answering signal precedes a minute or two of silence during which the caller turns from telephone to teletype and begins to make conversation. If no teletype contact is established during that period, the computer gas impatient and cuts off the caller...