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Road to Pakistan. Every day, Sarge Shriver arrived at Kennedy's Georgetown home with a bulging briefcase in hand and a few comments to make on the virtues and liabilities of prospects. Kennedy kept as busy as his staff, making telephone calls on his own all over the country, poring over the papers that Shriver brought him (e.g., the collected speeches and writings of Rusk), questioning visitors who filed endlessly through his drawing room. Before approving Harvard's David Bell as Budget Director, the Kennedy dragnets even checked Pakistan to see how he had done as an economic...
Back to Ann Arbor. In nearly every case the acid test was a personal interview with Kennedy. Shriver had arranged a Georgetown meeting with McNamara during a scouting expedition to Detroit, and McNamara passed the test with highest marks. About half an hour after McNamara was ushered into the Kennedy home, he and the President-elect emerged to tell the shivering press that a Defense Secretary had been found (McNamara's black Lincoln Continental was kept purring at the curb, with an aide inside holding a car telephone to relay the news to Mrs. McNamara in Ann Arbor...
Hour's Chat. Throughout the rest of his busy week, Jack Kennedy provided ample evidence of becoming the best hide-and-seek player the presidency has ever had. One afternoon, after a quick visit to Georgetown University Hospital to see Wife Jacqueline and their new son, he vanished to the suburbs for an hour's chat with Pundit Walter Lippmann. Next night in Manhattan two policemen knocked on his hotel door to ask if he would care for a midnight snack. Getting no answer, they went inside, found only a slightly mussed bed, a discarded Kennedy shirt; Jack...
...drainage ditches. Until last year, to keep the weeds from choking off the water flow, the ditches had to be cleared expensively by hand labor or chemical herbicide. Then William H. L. Allsopp, a British zoologist at the government fisheries laboratory in Guiana's capital city of Georgetown, took a fresh look at the weed problem. In Britain's Nature, Allsopp unveils his novel solution: the manatee, a clumsy, somewhat seal-like aquatic mammal* that flounders in the rivers and sloughs of tropical America...
Allsopp's inspiration came when he noticed that the manatees in the Georgetown Botanic Gardens nibbled their pool so clean of weeds that they had to be fed large quantities of grass. So he put two manatees in a weed-grown irrigation canal 22 ft. wide and nearly a mile long. In 17 weeks they had it clear and kept it that way. Allsopp figured that each of the manatees consumed more than 100 lbs. of forage...