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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Time and again he would appear in the windowless second floor briefing room-where last week he told of his departure-to describe his latest economy move, ranging from less expensive bolts to closing superfluous military installations. By the end, he could claim savings of $15 billion a year...
Despite the vexed outcome of the latest Vance mission, the fact that L.B.J. had chosen him not only to supervise the U.S. Army during the Detroit riots last summer, but to mediate the latest Mediterranean mix-up as well, vouched for the President's trust in the handsome, lanky lawyer. Lyndon has said he would like a man experienced in government to succeed McNamara-and Vance is clearly experienced...
Even after all these years, Eddie Rickenbacker, 77, the World War I flying ace, still has the itchiest trigger finger in the West. Latest target: hippies. "I love 'em like a rattlesnake," Cap'n Eddie said at a National Press Club luncheon in Washington. "If I had my way I'd give draft-card burners a good lashing and a good haircut; I would give beatniks the same, and get a good old-fashioned horse-curry brush and give 'em a good bang. I'd put these odds and ends out in front in Viet...
...hands are joining in Ramparts salutes these days. Conspicuously absent is Principal Stockholder and onetime Publisher Edward Keating, who was discovered "plotting" against the magazine last spring, as his detractors put it. The latest dropout is another major stockholder, Martin Peretz, 28, a Harvard lecturer in government who has contributed substantially to the magazine as well as to other New Left causes. He is also married to Anne Farnsworth, a Singer Sewing Machine heiress...
...Shoe. Yet there could be no better proof that modern music still has something to offer Bream,and he to it, than his latest RCA album, 20th Century Guitar. In compositions by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Frank Martin, Hans Werner Henze and Reginald Brindle, he weaves nimbly through some fierce technical obstacles, catching the harshness of the contemporary idiom while losing none of the guitar's characteristic aplomb and lucidity. Best of all is his performance of Nocturnal, a 19-minute mood piece written especially for him in 1963 by Benjamin Britten. Spiraling through a set of variations that end rather...