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Warming up, Dirksen waved his arms and pounded his desk. He leaned so close to Assistant Republican Leader Thomas Kuchel that the Californian was practically horizontal at his desk. He shook his head so emphatically that his carefully coiffed mane soon flew askew in a Medusaean tangle of curls. "Our outer defense perimeter started in Korea and went to South Viet Nam," he said. "That is our outside security line. Suppose it fails. It will run from Alaska to Hawaii." Thundered Dirksen, his voice now at full volume: "Let me say that I was not made a Senator to preside...
Back in Sacramento last week after four days on the road, Reagan may have been tempted to change his refrain. The trip proved that the rookie Governor is one of the hottest speakers on the G.O.P. circuit. After dedicating a library at his Illinois alma mater, Eureka College, Reagan flew to Columbia, S.C., where a $100-a-plate fund-raising dinner packed in some 3,500 of the faithful for the largest and most lucrative banquet ever held in the state...
Most of the planes that went on last week's deadly missions into North Viet Nam flew out of Thailand, from which 80% of all U.S. Air Force strikes over the North originate. Of the U.S.'s 40,000 military men stationed in Thailand, some 28,000 are Air Force pilots, mechanics and othsr ground-support personnel who maintain or fly 300 strike aircraft and 250 support planes from six U.S.-operated bases. Under Thailand's "gentlemen's agreement" with the U.S., the bases are considered Thai bases and are commanded by Thai officers. Thai...
Like the Brooklyn high school student who covered every mile of the New York subway system in twenty-four hours, Harvard senior Ravi Rikhye couldn't let well enough alone. This weekend, on a $25 Mohawk Airlines "Weekends Unlimited" pass, Rikhye flew 8400 miles in 36 hours, setting a record that will probably go unchallenged...
...week as one of the brothers, he took a $4,960-a-week cut to work off-Broadway in a revival of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, jumped later to the lead in national companies of The Fantasticks and Carnival. Next came a stint on Broadway in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which was set in a mental hospital and featured Ed as a schizophrenic Indian...