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Just before Christmas, as Johnson was about to depart for Rome on his round-the-world tour, he called former White House Aide Horace Busby, now managing a Washington consulting firm, to his compartment aboard Air Force One. "What do you think I ought to do next year?" he asked, referring to the presidential race. Busby suggested that he withdraw. In mid-January he asked Busby and Christian to draft a withdrawal statement for use in his 1968 State of the Union speech...
...former chairman of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. Without explanation, it relieved three top-ranking generals, including the head of the vast Warsaw Military District, of their troop commands and consigned them to out-of-the-way desk jobs. It dropped an Olympics official in the department of state sports and dismissed the rector and deputy rector, both Jews, of the Lodz State College of Theater and Film, which has produced such directors as Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water) and Jerry Skolimowski (Le Depart). While the purges gained momentum in Warsaw, there were reports from provincial cities...
While the forces of liberalization continued to gather momentum in Czechoslovakia, the regime of Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka stiffened its resistance to reform. To filter out the ringleaders of the student demonstrations that have occurred over the past few weeks, it closed down eight academic depart ments at Warsaw University, forcing 1,000 out of its 7,000 students to reen roll this week. The government drafted into the army more than 200 students, expelled 34 others at Warsaw and fired six professors, at least two of them Jew ish, on charges of inciting disturbances. In a revival...
...Meals will be cooked on a lower deck, sent by elevator to the passenger level. The Rolls engines will carry the big jets 3,160 miles at speeds equivalent to today's jets, but the L-101ls will need less landing and takeoff space and will arrive and depart more quietly than present jets. Beginning with the first delivery in late 1971, both TWA and Eastern plan to use the planes on high-density routes like New York-Miami or San Francisco-Los Angeles...
Dean Ford added yesterday that the directorship "had been worked out months in advance." he said that it in no way indicates Watson will depart from Harvard or any strain in his relationship with the University administration...