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...Without Risks. First to take the stand in the marble-walled, chandeliered chamber was retired Army General Maxwell Taylor, 64, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, former U.S. Ambassador to Saigon, a major architect of U.S. policy in Viet Nam since 1961 and one of the President's most trusted advisers on the war. As commander of the 101st Airborne Division* at Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, Taylor earned the sobriquet "Mr. Attack." During the hearings, he proved that he is also a master of cool, impenetrable defense. Under heavy fire...
...termed fear of Communism a "powerful prejudice," declared that "the Russian experiment in socialism is scarcely more radical under modern conditions than the Declaration of Independence was in the days of George III." In his 1964 "Old Myths and New Realities" speech, delivered to a nearly empty Senate chamber, Fulbright urged a more pliant policy toward Red China. As for U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic, the Senator condemned Washington's "exaggerated estimates of Communist influence...
...left internal mammary artery, which is not very important in man, is implanted in the heart wall so that its blood flow may reinforce the coronaries. One internal mammary is big enough to carry an adequate blood supply for the entire left ventricle (the heart's main pumping chamber), and if the blood still does not reach all the starved areas, the right mammary artery can be used to supply the right ventricle...
...Economic Advisers, argued that proposed 1966 spending by Government, business and consumers was "far in excess of the real productive capacity of the economy. Preventive action is needed now, not after the inflationary process has become established." Arthur Burns, Ike's chief economic adviser, told a U.S. Chamber of Commerce symposium: "While the Government is lecturing the private community on the need for restraints in price and wage adjustment, it is continuing an expansionist monetary policy." Even M.I.T.'s Paul A. Samuelson, a leading "new economist," observed that "the time has come to reinforce wage-price guidelines with...
...then Crane, who in both bulk and height is a truly imposing man, lumbered out into the middle of the Council chamber and launched into one of those bitter, vindictive monologues that have been so characteristic of this dispute. He attacked a man named Russell Smith, who, the ex-mayor claimed, had been personally plotting the removal of Curry for five years...