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...popular skepticism has made important converts. Ohio's Senator Frank Lausche, a hard-beaked hawk last year, recently suggested an unconditional halt to the bombing of North Viet Nam in order to try to bring Hanoi to the conference table. Rochester's Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, in a sermon that was all the more startling because of his oft-repeated anti-Communist views, declared: "May I speak only as a Christian and humbly ask the President to announce, 'In the name of God, who bade us love our neighbor with our whole heart and soul and mind...
Died. Shukri el Kuwatly, 76, Syrian nationalist, a hawk-faced firebrand who fought against Turkish rule before World War I, then against the French until independence in 1941, two years later became Syria's first President, only to be overthrown in 1949 and forced into a five-year exile after which he returned as President until 1958 when he and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser merged their nations into the long-cherished but ill-fated United Arab Republic; of a heart attack; in Beirut...
Still smarting from last year, when an oil leak forced him out of the race on the 27th lap, Andretti watched Gurney break his record, cracked: "It's nice to have something to shoot at"-and tramped on the throttle of his 500-h.p. Dean Van Lines Hawk-Ford. Shooting for 170 m.p.h., Mario came enticingly close-169.7 m.p.h.-on the third of four qualifying laps. Too enticingly. "Let me tell you, that fourth was one thrilling lap," he said later. "I lost it in the No. 1 turn, got straightened out in No. 2, then lost it again...
...irony of the Levinson-Kearns thesis is that it could work if the G.O.P.--as seems all too probable--nominates an out-and-out hawk. In that case, with President Johnson running feebly as the candidate of "restraint," a third party could make mincemeat of the Democratic vote and deliver up Richard Nixon...
...German V-2 rocket scientists (including Wernher Von Braun) from the grasp of the Russians, brought them to help rocketeers at U.S. bases, notably the Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala., which he commanded from 1954 to 1958, and where he led the development of such missiles as the Nike, Corporal, Hawk, Redstone and Honest John; after a long illness; at Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington...