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...believe that the total expenditures in the next fiscal year will be closer to $49 billion than to $50 billion." To emphasize his point that lower spending did not mean less preparedness, McNamara announced that Johnson had approved an extra $157 million to begin development of a mammoth new military cargo transport plane, the CX. About as long as a hockey rink and double the width of a moving van, the C-X would carry up to 600 troops and their equipment-a total payload of 250,000 Ibs. It should be operational by 1969, said McNamara, and plans call...
...President arrived at ten in the afternoon. At the airport to greet him were his able Vice President (who combines the baleful glare of Sonny Listen with a Groucho Marx mustache) and the fat, 5-ft.-tall head of the Youth League (who wears mammoth gold stars and carries his money in bulging sacks). During his stay the President was entertained by native dancers who balanced pickaxes, shovels and barrels of mortar on their heads. He supped on cherry pop and sponge cake while solemnly touring a gallery hung with photographs of Mao Tse-tung, Lenin and Lyndon Johnson...
Since it is the mammoth task of the AEC to administer $3 billion worth of contracts with private businesses and universities, these conferences with Congressmen are quite frequent. Proposed contracts or old ones up for renewal invariably benefit or ignore various local interests, any one of which is likely to be near to the heart of some legislator. In addition to their individual duties, the five appointed Commissioners meet "as often as necessary and sometimes every day" to deal with questions of general policy...
...Parseghian's move to South Bend last January was more like a homecoming than an arrival. He was introduced between halves of a basketball game, and the students gave him a ten-minute standing ovation. In mid-February, 3,000 turned out in two feet of snow for a mammoth pep rally. If it was spirit they wanted, spirit he gave them. At spring training he whipped out a letter written by a former Notre Dame player who had been seriously injured in an auto accident. Rockne couldn't have done it better. Voice quavering, Parseghian read the letter...
...friendly biographies could knock down. As this ninth attempt makes clear, the impression that he was a callous killer is no less deluded than Patton's own self-image. He absolutely believed that he was the "reincarnation" of an archetypal fighting man wHo had once "battled for fresh mammoth," had fought in a phalanx against Cyrus the Persian, on Crécy's field in the Hundred Years' War, in all the great campaigns since...