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...Pursued the elusive goal of world peace while keeping U.S. prestige high and U.S. power strong. He provided no panaceas for chronic ailments, but he met his major flare-up crisis-that of the Gulf of Tonkin-with just about the proper mixture of force and caution...
...size slice of his father's tobacco empire (Camel, Winston, Salem), who scorned the family trade to become a taxi driver, deck hand, aviator, ship owner, horse breeder and sometime Democratic politician, managing meanwhile to run through $10 million of his $25 million inheritance settling three marriages; of chronic pulmonary emphysema; in Lucerne, Switzerland, 36 hours before his fourth wife gave birth to a daughter...
...Colombia is still the showcase of the Alianza," says a longtime U.S. resident in Bogotá. "But it is a flyspecked showcase." Under the uncertain leadership of President Guillermo León Valencia, Colombia's chronic trade deficit has doubled, reaching a perilous $750 million; the cost of living has soared a staggering 45% ; and more than 10% of the labor force is unemployed. To top those troubles, Colombia's ruling National Front is falling apart...
This description joined the list of unflattering epithets -among them "chronic liar," "journalistic polecat" and s.o.b.-that have already been hurled at Pearson without puncturing his hide. But the News-Miner's phrase hit him smack in the reputation-or so the columnist claimed in a $176,000 libel suit. In his own defense, Pearson produced almost half a dozen character witnesses, among them the gentleman farmer whose 499 acres are near the Pearson property in Maryland: US Senator Wayne Morse...
Washington's judges have the option of hospitalizing chronic drunks. Yet no such referral has occurred since 1962, for the simple reason that the law requires "adequate treatment facilities"-something Congress has not provided. The city's rehabilitation clinic has facilities only for outpatients; the city's general hospital has beds for only 30 acute alcoholics. As a result, Washington spends $2,000,000 a year tossing drunks in the workhouse along with thieves and gamblers; the money might better be used for a treatment center. The setup "stinks," fumes Washington Corrections Department Director Donald Clemmer...