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...squad slipped through the heavily guarded perimeter of Tan Son Nhut, nearly reached a parking apron filled with warplanes be fore they were discovered and shot down. As it turns out, the Viet Cong made a mistake by pressing the city so hard: they jolted the U.S. high com mand into action...
corporations by Frank S. Endicott, di rector of placement at Northwestern University, shows that members of the class of '67 who are not headed for military service will be able to com mand an average of nearly $30 more per month than did last year's graduates. As usual, the corporate demand will be greatest for accountants and engineers, and students with master's degrees will do even better than B.A.s...
Underpinning this imaginative concept lies Lyndon Johnson's oft-repeated -and more often misunderstood-de mand for "creative federalism." Its simple essential theory is that Washington has the power and the money, but that its application can be most wisely prescribed by those closest to the problem-the municipalities themselves. There, ultimately, lies the greatest if not the only hope for the American city...
...Distinguished Flying Cross for leading the first U.S. carrier strike of the war. A couple of weeks later he got a Navy Cross when his planes sank some Japanese ships in Torpedo Junction off the eastern Solomons. To ward the end of the war, he had com mand of the escort carrier Chenango when the ship earned a Navy Unit Commendation for operations off Okinawa...
...replied that he only meant Russia would shoot down any planes that flew along Soviet borders. "You send ships along our coasts and planes over Alaska," snapped Thompson. "We aren't interested in Alaska," said Khrushchev piously and then, abruptly, shifted to a renewal of his familiar de mand for a U.S. apology over the U-2 incident. Gesturing as if to stomp on Ambassador Thompson's foot, he declared: "If I step on your foot, you expect me to apologize. Why didn't you apologize for the U2? If you are strong, you can afford...