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Striking back at his critics, Johnson set out to convince a skeptical public that his Viet Nam policy was beginning to show dramatic progress. His top echelon in Saigon, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, General William Westmoreland and Pacification Chief Robert Komer, flew into Washington for a minisummit. All three brimmed with confidence-or, as Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Russell put it after Westmoreland had addressed Russell's Armed Services Committee behind closed doors, "cautious optimism" (see following story). Said one aide, mindful that the latest Louis Harris Poll* shows Johnson's rating on his handling...
Dartmouth has the easiest task of the three co-defending champions--a home game against Penn. Bill Creeden, the Quakers' overrated quarterback, was sporadic against the second-echelon defenses of Lehigh and Brown and should go down to his first defeat of the fall against the Green. Dartmouth, in one of only three Hanover appearances this year, should please the home crowd...
Broad Paths. Young's concern is shared by other top-echelon Negro leaders-most notably A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People; and Martin Luther King, winner of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Each has explored broad pathways to Negro advancement: Randolph in the labor movement, Wilkins by affirming legal rights, King by awakening the nation's conscience, Young by opening up economic opportunity. None of the advances came easily...
...Long Island in 1929 with his late father Abe and his late brother Alfred, solved his management problem painfully. After losing $763,155 in 1961, he decentralized his operations, surrounded himself with youthful aides (the average age of his five senior vice presidents is 43), began training second-echelon executives because "there's no place for us to steal talent from." Wall Street has responded to Levitt's resulting 20%-a-year growth by lifting the price of Levitt & Sons stock on the American Stock Exchange from a low of $4 a share...
...result, American strength is being thinned out elsewhere and some top-echelon planners believe that a total of 600,000 Americans will now be needed in Viet Nam instead of the 475,000 planned for the end of 1967. This week General William Westmoreland and his top Saigon manpower experts are to discuss in Washington the subject of ground reinforcements...