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WHEN he went to the Pentagon in March, Clark Clifford was cast as a hawk. That was largely because Lyndon Johnson had told and retold the story of how Clifford, in the fall of 1965, had argued against what was to become a 37-day bombing halt over North Viet Nam. But the casting was misleading. Then chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Clifford was opposed to a pause in the bombing principally because of its timing. The U.S. then was just beginning to build up its forces, and could ill afford the sudden upsurge...
...mobile poster stand, adding that operating the stand helped to provide him and his wife Judy with a paid vacation. "It's sort of a honeymoon actually," he said. The couple, who have been selling the posters throughout the East Coast for a month, will hawk their wares in the Boston area for the next week before leaving for California, Pierce said...
Jared K. Rossman '71 of Dudley House, dressed in white overalls and a sandwichboard reading "Poor University Students Enjoy Yogurt (P.U.S.E.Y)," began at noon to hawk pint cartons of yogurt for 28 cents. Rossman claimed local grocers purchased the yogurt in wholesale lots for 23 cents a piece while Dudley House charges 45 cents for a carton of yogurt...
Southern Drawl. Wallace's discomfort was understandable. He knew that Barry Goldwater lost countless votes in 1964 because he was considered a bomb rattler. Though he is all bluster and bombast on domestic issues and a 100% hawk on Viet Nam, he has barred nuclear weapons in Viet Nam. At the end of LeMay's press conference, Wallace jumped on reporters for even raising the matter, declaring that "General LeMay hasn't said anything about the use of nuclear weapons...
...interviews, Agnew conjured up some long-dormant poltergeists of American politics. Hubert Humphrey, he said, was "soft on Communism." In addition, the Vice President was "soft on inflation and soft on law and order over the years" ? in fact, "squishy soft." Because of Humphrey's attempt to straddle hawk and dove lines on Viet Nam, said Agnew, the Vice President "begins to look a lot like Neville Chamberlain." He added: "Maybe that makes Mr. Nixon look more like Winston Churchill...