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...Viet Nam conflict. This time, Johnson carefully and lucidly redefined the principles behind the U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia. In keeping with the almost bland tone that he brought to the rest of the speech, he managed to discuss a white-hot situation without so much as a hint of belligerence. Yet there was an unmistakable undertone of strength and determination...
...sound of war continued in volume in Viet Nam, a remote and quiet Lyndon Johnson sat last week in his oval office watching for signs of peace. Beside his desk stood two news tickers. Every wire-service story that clattered in was scrutinized by the President for the slightest hint of response. Every phone call from Dean Rusk, every memo from the still-voyaging Harriman was eagerly accepted. Of the President's desire for peace there could be no doubt. Nor of the stakes, should the present all-out effort to get to the conference table fail...
...much as $5 billion. But the instrument could advance the infant art of radio astronomy to a rewarding maturity that might produce more scientific discoveries than the $40 billion program to put a man on the moon. And if while using their powerful instrument radio astronomers pick up a hint of an intelligent pattern in UHF signals from space, Oliver says, "an age-old question will have been answered. We will know that we are not alone...
Embarrassment All Around. That, as it turned out, was just a hint of things to come. The folks who run the Cotton Bowl at Dallas were more than a bit embarrassed when the best team they could find to oppose No. 2-ranked Arkansas, the winningest (22 straight) club in college football, was Louisiana State, which had struggled through a soso, seven-and-three season. Oddsmakers made Arkansas a nine-point favorite. They counted without a pint-sized (5 ft. 9 in., 164 lbs.) tailback from Cut Off, La., named Joe Labruzzo. Twice, deep in Arkansas territory, Labruzzo carried...
...basis of the various discussions by Ambassadors Harriman and Goldberg has been a fourteen-point memorandum entitled "The Heart of the Matter in Vietnam," which gathers together all of the President's former demands. Johnson has still refused even to hint at any compromise about the political future of the NLF, the substance of point three of Hanoi's four-point program. Thus the "new diplomacy" appears aimed at achieving traditional U.S. objectives through new and more up-dated techniques...