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...Johnson Administration moved urgently last week to forestall the trials and the prospect of executions. It dispatched cogent appeals to Moscow, Cairo and other capitals, also won assurances from Britain's Harold Wilson and India's Indira Gandhi that they would take up the issue during their visits to Moscow. To underscore these maneuverings, Secretary of State Dean Rusk warned that maltreatment of American airmen would be considered "a very grave development indeed...
...honor guard stood at saber-stiff attention and a 19-gun artillery salute boomed across the grassy Pentagon Mall, Army Chief of Staff Harold K. Johnson last week swore in Sergeant Major William O. Wooldridge, 43, as the highest-ranking enlisted man in the 191-year history of the U.S. Army. Wooldridge, who became the first noncom to hold the new rank of Sergeant Major of the Army (the Marines have had a comparable corps-wide post since 1957) will serve in effect as the G.I.'s generalissimo. Acting as both the soldier...
...Russians were hardly in a mood to greet British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who flew into town at week's end. As was Mrs. Gandhi's, Wilson's mission was peace in Viet Nam; and for his own political reasons, he was desperately hoping for success. Doubtless, in the back of his mind was the need for a diversion from the economic trouble at home (see WORLD BUSINESS). For all his negotiating skill, Wilson could hardly have expected much as his Comet4 jet touched down in Moscow. The Kremlin had made it amply clear that...
...Envelopes. A white-thatched bank veteran of 58 who came to the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street directly from secondary school in Wands-worth, a lower middle-class section of London, O'Brien worked his way up in 39 years from clerk to chief cashier and deputy governor. Harold Wilson picked him to succeed Lord Cromer, who left at the end of his five-year term to resume his partnership in the famed banking house of Baring Brothers. The O'Brien appointment was calculated to offend neither the financial community of "the City," which would have resented...
Nevada Smith is an excerpt from The Carpetbaggers, blown into a widescreen western roomy enough to accommodate some of the sex and violence missing from the first, expurgated movie version of Harold Robbins' bestseller. Turning a thankless bit part created by the late Alan Ladd into a title role for Steve McQueen, Nevada follows a half-breed boy on an odyssey of vengeance in pursuit of three professional gunmen who murdered his white father, raped and skinned his Indian mother...