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...aggressions on freedom. Both publicly and privately. President Kennedy avowed U.S. determination. Addressing the Association of the U.S. Army, Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Nitze, a key Pentagon strategist, said flatly that any Communist attempt to cut off Western air access to Berlin would be the "straw that breaks the camel's back." Were this to happen, said Nitze, war would not necessarily be confined to Germany, or even Europe: "We can offset a local preponderance of Communist strength by a determination to apply Western strength on terms other than those selected by the Soviets. Soviet tanks across the Autobahn...
...gambling probe (TIME, Sept. 1), the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations got satisfaction of a sort out of Thomas F. Kelly Sr., boss of a Chicago race-wire service, who was helped into office by the likes of Jacob ("Little Jack") Guzik. Anthony ("Tough Tony") Accardo. and Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys. Charging that one of Kelly's underlings had been driven to a suicide attempt by efforts to prevent him from testifying, the subcommittee chairman, Arkansas Democrat John McClellan, wondered aloud if the bulky, balding Chicagoan were not "the lowest scum of humanity" and if he had "no sympathy...
Besides carrying the biggest stick in baseball, Mickey Charles Mantle, 29, speaks with a soft-selling voice in the world of advertising. A switch-hitter, Mantle has personally endorsed a clutch of products ranging from Camel cigarettes to an anti-smoking pill called Bantron, now leads both leagues in the amount of money he collects from testimonial ads-a sum so large that his business agent prudently will not divulge...
Johnson, who shook hands from Bangkok to New Delhi, drawling "Now you all come see me." went home and forgot it, too-until he read in Washington a translated press clipping from Pakistan's biggest daily newspaper, Jang, that "the U.S. Vice President has invited Bashir, a camel-cart driver, to come to America. My, Bashir is certainly lucky. He will go by jet and stay in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York." Faced with a féte accompli, Lyndon did the sporting thing: at a televised People-to-People luncheon, he suggested that it would...
Kidnapped. Bashir, meanwhile, had melted back into obscurity among Karachi's 1,000 camel-cart drivers. When the news of Johnson's TV bid reached Pakistan, the Morning News posted a reward for Bashir, spurring a citywide search by Karachians from every walk of life. Bashir and camel were found by two reporters, collecting a load of firewood in a railway yard. The reporters hustled Bashir off to the editorial office of the morning Dawn, where he was feasted, quizzed, and kept virtual prisoner for 14 hours to assure the paper a scoop. Finally...