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...defenses are stronger than ever, getting better all the time-and costing a little less. That was the gist of the President's special defense message to Congress. Accounting for nearly half of the U.S. budget, the defense expenditures for the fiscal year 1965 ending this June will add up to about $49 billion, a drop of some $2 billion from last year. For next year Johnson promised a further cut of $300 million...
There are those around Saigon who would like to forget. Only last week Ambassador Taylor challenged the accuracy of one of Beverly's stories in which she reported the gist of an off-record Taylor news conference from which she had been excluded. Taylor, said Beverly, had said that some of the generals who had taken over power in the Vietnamese government "border on being nuts." "The article," sniffed an official U.S. embassy release, "is apparently based on inaccurate leaks from a background session to which the Tribune's correspondent was not invited...
...exactly what happened to Khrushchev and why-forcing not only the West but also other Communist parties to work out the puzzle as best they could (see following story). The Soviet press kept stating the new regime's case against Khrushchev in the usual half-veiled style; its gist was that he had been highhanded and had refused to take advice. But the criticism sounded a little more restrained, with the new regime presumably taken aback by the protests...
...gist of these proposals is the Committee's recognition that the only thing which insures an excellent Gen Ed program is excellent Gen Ed courses and the only thing which insures excellent courses is excellent teachers. When all is said, there is really no doubt that in the enthusiasm of men like George Wald and Sam Beer is all that is good with Gen Ed today...
...full 28 hours before a tight-lipped McNamara appeared before newsmen to read a 146-word communiqué and refused to entertain any questions. Gist of his statement: two unnamed U.S. destroyers "were menaced" by four "unidentified vessels" and opened fire, after which the "vessels" disappeared...