Word: hotly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Point classmate ('36) of Westy's, served as the Army's vice chief of staff before arriving in Viet Nam last May. When and if the big battle at Khe Sanh comes, Abrams, 53, will be in charge of it. Finding himself in a similar hot spot during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, the cigar-chomping general said: "They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards...
...Perturbable Rusk. Throughout his Indian tour?and ever since?Galbraith also waged a hot war with the State Department. Communications from Washington took too long to arrive, he complained, and communicated nothing when they did get there. Occasionally, he set U.S. policy by himself. Entirely on his own, for instance, he announced that the U.S. recognized India's disputed northern borders. Washington gulped, but went along. Confronted by Galbraith, the usually imperturbable Dean Rusk has proved quite perturbable, and when the ambassador argued for a change in U.S. policy toward China, the Secretary shot back: "Your views...
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Four years ago, no public school in Cleveland offered hot lunches to its students. Now all secondary schools do, and last month the city became the first in the nation to offer free breakfasts, to 14,000 children in elementary schools. The milk-and-cereal program-which has dramatically cut down on absenteeism-is the brainchild of Superintendent Paul Warren Briggs, 55, who is steadily changing an ailing public-school system into a healthy...
...Mark III is the third in a line of elegantly customized Lincolns, originally conceived by Edsel Ford. It will be produced only in a two-door model, which will weigh in at $8,000. The pitch is clearly for buyers who until now have fallen for luxury hot-rods like Cadillac's front-wheel-drive Eldorado. To win them to Continental-or at least lure them into a Lincoln-Mercury showroom-Ford's engineers and stylists have aimed at "elegant perfection." Says Marketing and Product Planning Manager Ralph L. Peters: "We're going all the way with...