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...persisted, and 20,000 more tons of garbage piled up in the city's streets. While Lindsay enjoyed considerable moral support for his stand, the city's three major daily papers attacked Rockefeller. Even the New York Times, normally a Rockefeller supporter, flayed the Governor in uncharacteristically harsh terms, indicting him for "sabotage," "appeasement," "bad politics and bad government...
...especially awkward for Trowbridge because for months he has been assuring worried businessmen that no harsh steps would be necessary. Last week, as Trowbridge started to recruit a staff of 200 experts for his infant Office of Foreign Direct Investment, all kinds of problems popped up. Telephone inquiries by the hundreds deluged his skeletal staff, which was handicapped by the lack not only of the inevitable official forms but also of the prestigious business executive that the Secretary seeks to take charge of OFDI...
Died. Dr. Theophilus Ebenhaezer Dönges, 69, longtime South African statesman; after a series of strokes; in Cape Town. As Minister of Interior from 1948 to 1958, Donges pushed through South Africa's Parliament the harsh dogmas of apartheid-absolute racial partition, mandatory identification papers for all blacks, no mixed marriages, and no voting rights for persons of mixed blood-then, as Finance Minister from 1958 to 1966, bent himself to the more creditable task of successfully building a vigorous, stable economy for his gold-rich country. His real ambition was to be Prime Minister, but he finally...
Brooding over the Viet Nam war last September, Newsweek's Saigon Bureau Chief Everett G. Martin had some harsh words for the Vietnamese. In a two-page piece for his magazine, Martin charged that the Vietnamese troops performed so poorly on their own that they should be completely integrated with U.S. forces. The U.S., he went on, should also take a much more active role in governing South Viet Nam, from channeling all economic aid to ousting corrupt Vietnamese officials. "What right do the Vietnamese have to expect full sovereignty," he asked, "while depending for their very survival...
Having decided to switch from mild restraints to harsh controls, Johnson cloaked his planning in warlike secrecy. While the President was in Australia, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, Commerce Secretary Alexander Trowbridge, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. and White House Aide Walt Rostow stitched to gether a list of recommendations...