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Rising Pressures. Impatience mounted. In Washington, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman J. William Fulbright and members of his committee urged Johnson to accept Warsaw and "not quibble about a site." The British grumbled about U.S. "fussing." Johnson clung to his insistence that a site should satisfy four requirements?adequate communications, access for U.S. allies, thorough press coverage, and a "fair" atmosphere for both sides...
...superb administrator as well as a brilliant legal mind with a virtually encyclopedic memory. Vance characteristically dresses in dark suits, white button-down shirts and bold-striped ties. In 1947, he married Grace Elsie Sloane, daughter of John Sloane, former board chairman of Manhattan's W & J Sloane, the nation's oldest home-furnishing house. The Vances have five children...
...Kennedy and McCarthy supporters, virtually assuring Humphrey of all 49 votes. In a brief visit to New York City, Humphrey sat down to luncheon with a group of Wall Streeters, walked off with pledges of some $750,000 in campaign contributions. With backing from such moneymen as Sidney J. Weinberg of Goldman, Sachs & Co.; John L. Loeb of Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co.; John Connor of Allied Chemical Corp.; and Robert Dowling of the City Investing Co., Humphrey's opening kitty may soon pass the $5,000,000 mark...
Irwinophiles who survive the initial discomfort say that they eventually discover an ineluctable serenity in the artist's work. The National Gallery's assistant director, J. Carter Brown, considers Irwin one of the most talented artists to come along since Mark Rothko. The Metropolitan Museum's contemporary-art curator, Henry Geldzahler, bought an Irwin in 1962, despite the fact that looking at it made him "feel ill and weak all over." It now hangs in his bedroom, where he maintains that it exerts "a calming effect...
...first of Saturn's obvious troubles, the unexpected and early shutdown of two of the five J-2 engines powering the second stage (TIME, April 12), was traced to a fuel line that broke under the strain of liquid hydrogen flowing through it at approximately 100 m.p.h. The break set off a chain of events that lowered pressure in the engine, which automatically shut down. Because of an incorrectly wired circuit, the shutdown on the first engine sent a signal to another, perfectly operating engine, erroneously ordering it to shut down also...