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Even more indicative was the noncommittal comment of President-elect Jack Kennedy: "It is an interesting and constructive study, which I know will be carefully analyzed by the Congress and the incoming Administration." At week's end the word around Washington was that Kennedy had no intention of submitting any significant portion of the Symington program to Congress...
...news was considered urgent enough to summon members of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee to Washington for an urgent unscheduled meeting. CIA Director Allen Dulles hastily arranged a talk with President-elect John Kennedy. Around it all was an aura of deep secrecy. Was it someone's first successful Abomb? Was it a nuclear pile gone critical? Those in the know would say only that there has been an "atomic development" by an "nth power...
There are signs that President-elect Kennedy is thinking along Norstad's lines. In a book review written for the Satur day Re-view last September, Kennedy declared, "We must think through afresh the military mission of NATO." In the book before him, British Military Expert B. H. Liddell Hart argued that European nations perhaps should abandon atomic weapons and concentrate on conventional forces, leaving the U.S. the task of deterring Soviet atomic strength. Kennedy was convinced that European nations would likely prefer another solution: "Our partners may wish to create a NATO deterrent, supplementary to our own, under...
...auction of Black Angus cattle in San Antonio, few paid much attention to the lanky bleacher sitter attired in a battered Stetson, old sports jacket, khaki trousers and cowboy boots. But the inconspicuous bidder was none other than Vice President-elect Lyndon B. Johnson, just back from Paris. Spotted and called by name, L.B.J. uttered an annoyed "Shhh" to his discoverer: "I'm down here to buy something good and cheap." With his secret out, Johnson, partnered with a Houston oilman, bought four yearling bulls...
Died. Keith Thomson, 41, Republican Senator-elect from Wyoming, who would have been the first man in the state's history to move up from the House of Representatives (where he was Wyoming's lone delegate for six years); of a heart attack; in Cody, Wyo. The youngest infantry battalion commander on the Italian front in World War II, Thomson forged an equally successful civilian career as a lawyer, rancher and businessman, as a politician belonged to Senator Barry Goldwater's conservative school...