Word: clark
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Absolute Tommyrot. All sorts of rumors of a new U.S. peace offensive over Viet Nam preceded the two-day Honolulu conference. Before leaving for a war tour a fortnight ago, Defense Secretary Clark Clifford gave many the impression that he might seek South Vietnamese approval for a full halt to U.S. bombing of the North. Assistant Secretary of State William Bundy hinted that a bombing pause would indeed be a key issue at Hawaii. Cyrus Vance, No. 2 man on the Paris negotiating team, emphasized the recent lull in fighting around Saigon, feeding speculation that it might prove...
...Communist Tet offensive has prodded South Vietnamese soldiers to fight with unaccustomed vigor, and the U.S. commander in Viet Nam, General Creighton Abrams, will voice guarded optimism when he briefs the two Presidents on the war's progress. A fact-finding team headed by Defense Secretary Clark Clifford and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Earle G. Wheeler flew to Viet Nam last week to assess military prospects before the meeting...
...HUXLEYS by Ronald W. Clark. 398 pages. McGraw-Hill...
Baby Mine! The obligation to be clever in some way came as a birthright-rather reverently if hastily tracked through three generations by Family Biographer Ronald Clark. Above Aldous' cradle brooded the example of his grandfather, T. H. Huxley, a brilliant biologist and a public defender of Darwin when Origin of Species was shocking fundamentalists. Representing a kind of caretaker generation, Aldous' father Leonard devoted most of his life to a two-volume biography reciting the achievements of T.H. and looking forward with confidence to his own chil dren's outdoing him. No one is quite sure...
...myopic, Huxley grew up through Eton and Oxford to live in a thin, rarefied world of his own. His notion of conversation, Osbert Sitwell grumbled, was to relay data on the "incestuous mating of melons" or the "curious amorous habits of cuttlefish." In words that Clark applies to all the Huxleys, young Aldous seemed less a human being than "something more nearly approaching a controlled experiment...