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...Situation Stabilized." To find out what more needs to be done to strengthen Diem's troops, already being advised and trained in counterguerrilla tactics by some 4,000 U.S. military personnel. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara flew to Hawaii last week for firsthand reports from his Pacific military leaders. After the conference, McNamara reported: "The situation now seems to be stabilized in so far as Communist advances are concerned.'' This in itself was a big improvement over the Communists' long record of village-by-village victory in South Viet Nam. Before going to Hawaii for the meeting...
...loved to hunt, fish, swim, sail and skate, and he was good at all these sports. But he loathed the fusty Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where pupils spent week after week copying classical statues. To get a firsthand knowledge of anatomy, he took courses at the Jefferson Medical College, for a time even considered becoming a doctor. Instead, he went off to Paris to study under the French master Jean Léon Géróme. The basis of Geroóme's teaching was the nude, as it was to be of Eakins...
...inveterate globetrotter, Hamilton has firsthand knowledge of many of the countries he will deal with. He is a dark-browed heavyweight (195 lbs.), an aggressive administrator and a fluent conversationalist who is brusquely intolerant of small talk. "I think I have a very good understanding of foreign problems," he says, "and I welcome this opportunity...
...Firsthand Report, Adams...
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