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...keyed way, was supervising the Wallace Girls--most of whom were volunteer women from Greater Boston. The Wallace Girls wore appropriate banners and boaters and paraded up and down the aisles soliciting funds, selling Wallace neckties, and handling out little cards. They were eager to please. Occasionally one fo them would come running back to Gladys Roberts and say "None of the people in my row wanted to give. But I asked them anyway, just for the fun of it. Was that all right?" Of course, it was all right...
...other moves went virtually unnoticed, however, as all attention fo cused on the bombing pause-and why Johnson timed its announcement when he did. Politics, of course, were thought to have played a major role. With Wisconsin's primary two days off, it was presumed he had hoped that a move toward peace might neutralize the formidable challenge to his renommation that was being posed by Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy. In addition, his popularity hit an all-time low in a Gallup poll released this week. Only 36% of those questioned approved of his conduct of the presidency...
...Friend. Still, nothing quite approached last week's performance. Talks began last October with Moore & McCormack, which is expected to report a loss for '67 partly because of heavy containerization expenses. City's proposed $80 million deal for the potentially profitable company would put Scharffenberger in fo'c'sle-to-fo'c'sle competition with another Litton alumnus: Walter Kidde & Co. President Fred Sullivan, who last month won ailing United States Lines' consent to a merger...
While the attention of the U.S. is fo cused on Viet Nam, the Russians are mounting at sea a new challenge that the U.S. and its allies will have to deal with long after the fighting in Southeast Asia is ended. This may come as a surprise to most laymen?but not to U.S. naval experts. While Russia's stock of intercontinental missiles and its huge land army on Europe's periphery still remain the major military threats to the West, in recent years the Russians have developed a global navy second only to the U.S. in size and weaponry...
...captains to pace a fo'c'sle, practically everyone's No. 1 dirty sea dog is William Bligh, commander of H.M.S. Bounty until he and 18 crewmen were left tossing in a dinghy by Mutineer Fletcher Christian...