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...intermediate-range (1,000 miles) missile last October. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has warned that the Chinese will have effective IRBMs in limited numbers by 1969, and ICBMs capable of reaching the continental U.S. by the mid-1970s. Last week's H-blast was certain to step up clamor in Congress for an immediate start on the deployment of an anti-ballistic missile net. It may also prompt India and other nations to decide to build their own nuclear weapons...
...beginning of April, 1917, the pacifist element on campus was practically non-existent. "Hereafter, the CRIMSON will print no more communications of a pacifist nature," the editors declared. "If there are any members of the University so blind or cowardly in spirit as to clamor for neutrality when all hope of neutrality is dead, they should commune with themselves in private and find reflection in the definition of traitors as those '...adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort...
...meet the President of France). President Calvin Coolidge sent a U.S. Navy cruiser to bring him home, and was waiting for him at the foot of the Washington Monument when he arrived. U.S. Ambassador to France Myron Herrick spoke for most when he declared: "He stood forth amidst clamor and crowds, the very embodiment of fearless, kindly, cultivated American youth-unspoiled, unspoilable. A nation which breeds such boys need never fear for its future." Young Lindbergh seemed engagingly modest, and remarked that he had merely wanted to prove the possibilities of future air travel and the need for commercial airports...
With inborn bayou cunning and every parliamentary trick and threat learned in 18 years on Capitol Hill, Louisiana's Russell Long has managed to mire the U.S. Senate in a month-long procedural gumbo. While many more pressing issues clamor for attention, the assistant majority leader has made his ill-conceived, hastily passed 1966 Presidential Election Campaign Fund Act the upper chamber's overriding concern. The measure would give up to $30 million each to the Republican and Democratic parties from $1 contributions checked off federal income tax returns. Though the Senate has already voted three times...
...savoring contemplation to reveal the full flavor. In our cover, Conrad uses color as well as line to make his points: the silks worn by the political jockeys are meaningful. Lyndon B. Johnson is resplendent in purple, the royal color, but burdened with weights: a difficult war, the clamor for peace, and L.B.J. himself. After all, what with "image" difficulties and credibility gaps, the President can be his own worst handicap. Peering out from behind Johnson is Bobby Kennedy in shamrock green. Behind him is an aloof Hubert Humphrey, only slightly touched by the presidential purple (some people are more...