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...bloody fighting in South Vietnamese cities was shocking and sickening [Feb. 9]. There are those who will cry "bad taste" or "obscene." The fact is that war is obscene, but unrealistic complacency about it is as dangerous as it is uninformed. Hopefully, candid reporting will make shockingly clear to hawk and dove alike the horrible consequences of a peace-at-any-price policy, as well as the urgency of exhausting all channels to obtain a just peace...
...Considered Insinuation. The rumors were apparently touched off by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Eafle Wheeler in a Feb. 1 closed-door appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee. In response to a hypothetical question from Republican Hawk Strom Thurmond, according to leaked reports, Wheeler said that the Pentagon would indeed recommend use of nukes if the outcome of the Khe Sanh battle depended on their deployment. He had emphasized earlier, however, that he believed Khe Sanh could be held without their use. Moreover, he did not suggest that the President would permit their use even...
Carr's father, an immigrant from Rumania, used to hawk vegetables from a pushcart in Manhattan. Young Fred had grander ideas. He began hanging around brokerage board rooms when he was 14. Every dollar he made while in high school-some $500-he invested and promptly lost, but his infatuation with the stock market continued. A junior-year dropout from California State College, he amassed $10,000 in such small business ventures as building concrete aprons for driveways and operating a gas station, before going to work for Bache & Co. as an assistant broker at $217 a month...
...Michigan. What's more, both teams had equal rights to him by virtue of their last-place tie in the National Basketball Association. So they flipped a $20 gold piece. The Knicks won Russell, and the Pistons settled for Syracuse's Dave Bing, 22, a college-ball hawk but a pretty small man at 6 ft. 3 in. to stand up against the giants in the N.B.A...
...from being a hawk on the war, I have constantly been revising my views, and in recent months I have become a firm dove. In case my views are of any interest: I am a loyal American, and happy to fight for my country wherever our rights, or the rights of people who desire to be under our auspices, are questioned. I no longer feel that Viet Nam is such a place...