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...entirely. In Boston, Harvard, M.I.T., and Boston University students marched across the Charles River, and one shouted: "It's V-J day?victory over Johnson!" Outside the White House, a group of youths unfurled a banner reading THANKS, L.B.J. In Kansas City, a photographer wrote: "Congratulations. It was the best thing you could possibly have given up for Lent." Of a record 20,000 letters and telegrams that poured into the White House, however, all but a few congratulated the President for a magnanimous action...
Slings of Artillery. Operation Pegasus had begun only four days previously under the command of Major General John J. Tolson, 53, commander of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) in Viet Nam. It was launched from Landing Zone Stud in the Khe Sui Soi river valley eleven miles northeast of Khe Sanh; its first task was to open Route 9, which had been in enemy hands since last August. Its overall goal: to create a ground supply line to Khe Sanh and to destroy the enemy around the Marine camp. To do the job, Tolson...
Movie buffs flip when they pass him on Manhattan streets, squealing "That face! It's C.W.! Hey there, C. W. Moss!" In fact, so many people remember Michael J. Pollard's wild hair and potato face in Bonnie and Clyde that the 28-year-old actor has become the center of a pop cult. One bunch is running him for President, and a clothing manufacturer wants to put his pixyish grimace on dresses. "Can you imagine wearing my face out in public?" giggles Pollard. "Making money off my face?" He's already swamped with new scripts...
After igniting successfully, two of the five second-stage J-2 engines inexplicably shut down nearly 2½ minutes early, reducing thrust by 400,000 lbs Although Saturn's sophisticated guidance-and- control system automatically ordered the remaining three engines to fire longer, the rocket had not achieved its programmed velocity by the time the third stage was ready to take over. Thus to achieve orbital velocity of 17,500 m.p.h., the third stage was required to fire 23 seconds longer than planned, consuming 20,000 extra pounds of fuel...
...expensive computers, and with payrolls representing 70% of total expense, the agencies have been able to cut back on clerical help and thus reduce such other overhead as floor space. As a result, they have been free to pay more money to the creative people they most need. J. Walter Thompson, biggest of all agencies, with total billings last year of $590 million, has even turned the situation into an intramural campaign. Chairman Norman Strouse refers to the new look at J. Walter as "fewer, better people, better paid...