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...pounce on Sundays (all it takes is a press release and an order for an ad in the next day's paper), when the management of the attacked company is unready to hit back. "The first I heard of this raid was at my golf club," spluttered President Dwight M. Cochran of Kern County Land Co. after Occidental Petroleum's bitterly contested two-step offer last month to buy 23% of his asset-laden oil and farming firm. With such tactics, a group of Detroit financiers led by Donald H. Parsons, 36, has taken over five Michigan banks...
...officials relished the idea of the U.S. acting alone. "None of us should be too hurried about getting into this thing," warned Dwight Eisenhower. "Any unilateral action would be a serious mistake." Officially, the Administration agreed, pinning its public hopes on the United Nations to settle the crisis before the Israelis lose patience and try to break the blockade themselves. But many U.S. policymakers are disenchanted with U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, not only for his blatant partisanship on Viet Nam, but also for his aphronic action in pulling the entire U.N. peace-keeping force out of the Sinai desert...
...Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. (later TWA), to become a consultant. Stock options made him a millionaire almost overnight. The Minnesota farm boy and barnstorming pilot moved more and more in the ambiance of the very rich. Among them he found his wife-Anne Morrow, daughter of ex-Morgan Partner Dwight Morrow, who was then ambassador to Mexico, where Lindbergh had been sent on a good-will mission...
...innocent of accusations of treason, an ex-President's struggle to uphold his fading reputation, an exiled party girl's scheme to re-enter her native England, a down-and-out reporter's comeback attempt. By a stretch of imagination no greater than Wallace's, Dwight Eisenhower, Christine Keeler, Alger Hiss and the entire journalistic profession could conceivably sue. But why should they? Nobody could accuse Plot's characters of resembling real people...
...Senate Republican Policy Committee-but not approved by the committee members-posed two questions about the war: "What precisely is our national interest in Thailand, Cambodia, Viet Nam and Laos? To what further lengths are we prepared to go in support of this interest?" The report attempted to disassociate Dwight Eisenhower from any connection with the current massive U.S. involvement and accused Johnson of "diplomatic Darwinism" in saying that his policy in Viet Nam is "part of a steady evolution from commitments made by earlier Presidents." In fairly general terms, it also criticized the conduct...