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...assignment in its history has taxed the Army's 70,000-man Corps of Engineers more heavily. For even more than the Pacific battles of World War II, the struggle for Viet Nam-as Douglas MacArthur said of the earlier conflict-is "an engineer's war." Despite Herculean construction feats by the corps, the U.S. buildup has of necessity outpaced the logistical facilities needed to handle it. On his return from Saigon last November, one of Defense Secretary McNamara's first orders to Pentagon aides was to find a chief engineer to supervise all military construction...
...When Rusk was not conferring with the President, he was wading through a herculean schedule: writing memos, sifting intelligence reports, receiving ambassadors, speechmaking, conferring with aides, answering Congressmen's questions. Among his visitors during the week: British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart and Defense Minister Denis Healey, who brought the welcome news that any "adjustments" in British commitments east of Suez would be made "without significant loss of strength." On normal days, 1,200 cables cascade into Foggy Bottom; when things are bubbling, 1,800. They are usually bubbling. "The world is round," says Rusk. "Only one-third...
...free market in farm products is viewed as an invitation to chaos. Times are changing. Today, as the world's population threatens to outstrip its ability to pro duce food, many experts predict that Washington will ultimately have to stimulate rather than stifle the U.S. farmer's herculean productivity...
...Right Living") and the Hi-Bred (a play on hybrid) Corn Co. Believing, correctly, that the farm depression would drag down the entire economy, he later enlisted in Franklin D. Roosevelt's first brain trust. Wallace wrote F.D.R.'s farm plank in 1932. Then he assumed the herculean task of implementing it as Agriculture Secretary during the first two Roosevelt administrations...
Nearing the end of its herculean first session, the 89th Congress has firmly set in place the foundations of the Great Society. It has adopted legislation that will affect nearly all Americans, but most immediately the poor, the elderly, the undereducated, those who are conspicuously deprived of political representation and economic opportunity. While thus proving itself the most liberal Congress in decades, the 89th has notably refused to act in one area that might have been expected to fit its pattern: it has not approved a single bill that would exclusively benefit organized labor...