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Circular Line. Thus, when Clark Clifford, McNamara's successor as Defense Secretary. went to Capitol Hill to request $227 million as a first installment on Sentinel, he ran into a skeptical Congress. In the Senate, Sentinel was opposed by a potent bipartisan coalition that included such normally defense-minded figures as Stuart Symington, a former Air Force Secretary, and Maine's Margaret Chase Smith. Their arguments: Sentinel is worthless and would merely prompt both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to build more offensive missiles. Eugene McCarthy interrupted his presidential campaign to denounce the ABM system on the Senate...
Carloads of pro-control mail have cascaded into Washington. Senators whose mail had run 100-to-1 against gun laws now found the ratio reversed. New Jersey's Republican Senator Clifford Case alone has received 11,000 letters since Senator Kennedy's death, 400-to-1 in favor of strong legislation. Tydings drew twice as many letters on guns in a few days as he has on Viet Nam in the past three years. The 16-month-old National Council for a Responsible Firearms Policy launched a campaign to send 10 million pro-control letters to Congress, also...
Well, not quite. Would you believe Lyndon Johnson? Hubert Humphrey? Dean Rusk? Robert McNamara? Defense Secretary Clark Clifford? A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany? They are all in Who's Who. So is Composer Leroy Anderson (The Syncopated Clock) who was, to be sure, a U.S. military intelligence captain in World War II and Korea. So are Pulitzer Prizewinning Cartoonist Bruce Shanks of the Buffalo Evening News and Phil Santora of the New York Daily News, not to mention Newsday Publisher Bill Moyers, L.B.J.'s former press secretary. On the list too are Arthur Schlesinger and HEW ex-Secretary...
...Booker's bosses decided that corporate authorship was a profitable hedge against what Chairman David Powell, who succeeded Sir Jock, calls "the hazards of tropical agriculture." Thus the company has bought controlling interest in the works of such British authors as John and Penelope Mortimer, Gavin Lyall, Francis Clifford and Robert Bolt (A Man For All Seasons). Now, in its latest acquisition, Booker has signed on an author every bit as big as Ian Fleming. For an amount it refuses to disclose, the company has acquired 51% of everything published since 1955 by famed Mystery Writer Agatha Christie...
...CLIFFORD A. TRUESDELL...