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...Course. Addressing businessmen, civic leaders and publishers at a State Department briefing the next night, Johnson continued in the same vein. "Let no single American mistake the enemy's major offensive now!" he cried. "That offensive is aimed squarely at the citizens of America. It is an assault to crack America's will. It is designed to trouble and worry and confuse others." But, he said, his jaw set, "We have set our course. We will pursue it just as long as aggression threatens it. And make no mistake about it -America will prevail...
...Cardinal Cushing Fund is "Catholic-related, but non-sectarian in practice," Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for civic and governmental affairs, said yesterday...
Beyond the Elks. Not even the smaller cities are immune. There are four dance companies in Tacoma, Wash., three in Jacksonville, Fla., one in Huntsville, Ala. In Alaska, the Anchorage Civic Ballet has graduated from the Elks Club to the West High School auditorium, where its performances of Nutcracker attracted sell-out crowds of over...
...Little Dirt. The upscale sound of Alexander Euclid Scourby was bred in Brooklyn, but any vestige of his home borough or his immigrant parents' Greek accent was drilled out of him by the time he was 19, when he apprenticed with Eva LeGallienne's Civic Repertory Theater. Within four years, he was on Broadway as the Player King to Leslie Howard's Hamlet, and had developed so Shakespearean an intonation that he bombed his first radio auditions. So, he says, "I dirtied it up a little bit and made it sound Amer ican." Soon he was dovetailing...
...plex that already includes the 22-story Merchandise Mart, three office build ings, a bus terminal with a 2,000-seat theater, and the new, 800-room Regency Hyatt House. Soon to be added are a 70-story office skyscraper and sev eral high-rise apartment buildings. As a civic enterprise, it would do justice to any U.S. city. What makes it all the more remarkable is that the whole of Peachtree Center has gone up without a penny of public funds...