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...Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Afterward, McNamara said the Defense Department's budget would be trimmed by about $1 billion next year-to around $51 billion. The savings would come mainly from a cost-reduction program instituted by President Kennedy and from a letup in heavy expenditures for the now well-stocked nuclear arsenal (see box). McNamara declared that U.S. forces would be "superior to those in any other time in our peacetime history...
When the Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, Hewlett Johnson, 89, finally retired last May, Anglican churchmen breathed a long sigh of relief. But "the Red Dean" shows no sign of letup in his Communist Partygoing. Now he is off to Havana to help celebrate the fifth anniversary of Fidel Castro's regime. "He was absolutely determined to go," said his wife. "I must say he has been very well lately, but it is a long journey...
...During the next ten years," adds Tex Thornton, "there should be more scientific and technological advancement than in all history-more than double that of the past 20 years." This means no letup for a company devoted to profiting by change. Litton's confident executives do not expect growth to level off until the company reaches at least $2 billion in sales-a point that could be reached within four years at the company's present growth rate, and that would rank it fifth among U.S. corporations. "There's really no place to stop," says Tex Thornton...
Sivard, in horn-rims, has the quietly desperate air of a man who has dealt with unceasing pressures for so long that a sudden letup would give him a bad case of the bureaucratic bends. But as his fun-filled, detail-packed little canvases show, this worried air conceals an indestructible sense of humor. He started his artistic life as a muralist's assistant, later became an adequate commercial artist and illustrator, then dabbled a bit in abstractionism. But he had to give it up: "It's awfully hard to get a touch of humor in an abstraction...
...public, but beyond the reach of microphones, cameras and recording devices, he is remarkably candid and salty in talking to staff and visitors about his hopes, plans, preoccupations and disappointments. Current J.F.K. opinions: Berlin. Despite the rumors of a U.S.Russian deal on Berlin-rumors set off by a sudden letup in Communist interference with Western road and air traffic into Berlin-no deal has been arrived at, and none is in sight...