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...Oregon trail for Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy was really the end of a long, grinding, cross-country reconnaissance in force. In the Oregon primary last week, the youthful Bostonian gave U.S. Senator Wayne Lyman Morse the drubbing of his political life and registered his seventh straight primary victory-the final one on his schedule. In the seven triumphs (New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Indiana, West Virginia, Nebraska, Maryland and Oregon), Jack Kennedy was the favorite of 1,500,000 voters, added some 330 committed delegate votes* to his convention strength. More important, by campaigning the hard, primary way, he had buried...
...costly. To create the Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile system would cost the U.S. an estimated $14 billion-more than the entire Atlas program-and then no one could dream that it would knock out every nuclear-nosed missile. Last week the Army's chief of staff, General Lyman Lemnitzer, sadly surrendered hope of prying loose $137 million in Nike-Zeus funding now bottled up by the Budget Bureau (although Nike-Zeus is still in the budget for $324 million of research and development funds...
...greater speed in building the B70 supersonic bomber, White said that his own responsibilities were "relatively narrow" and that his requests had been refused by "my superiors" (i.e., Defense Secretary Thomas Gates and President Eisenhower), and he accepts the decisions and respects the men who made them. General Lyman Lemnitzer, the Army Chief of Staff, said he did not plan to contest a recent Budget Bureau decision to withhold $137 million in Army funds for the Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile...
...first successes as an artist were dramatic woodcuts, but at 37 he finds sculpture his natural medium. Sophisticated, gentle and intense, he lives with his wife and small son in a home that was once the servants' quarters of the old Frank Lyman estate in Northampton, works in a converted harness room back of the house...
They include likenesses of Benjamin Franklin, George Lyman Kittredge, Bishop Lawrence (one of the House's first associates), and Charles James...