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...movies, and he simply loved football. He'd watch the college football games on Saturday and the pro games on Sunday, lying there on the floor, usually dressed in a white T shirt and slacks. He went looking for a job, and I gave him a city map of the Dallas-Fort Worth area -that infamous map-so he could find the places." After Kennedy's death that map was found in Oswald's room...
...small unit, encircled in the village of Idiofa (see map) and reinforced by a platoon of commandos, had piled up 500 rebel dead, but was unable to break the siege. At Gungu, another government outfit mowed down 100 guerrillas who staged a suicide charge with bows and arrows, spears and pangas. But the troops were cut off when rebels dug trenches across the local airstrip. Hardly had the commandos ar rived at Kikwit when one of their top officers, Army Chief of Staff Lieut...
Without a map and pointer, President Johnson had to resort to statistics to illustrate just what an ornery place the world was. In no fewer than "eight different situations," he told a White House press conference, the U.S. had "demonstrated anew" its determination to keep the peace. Lyndon's aides had a few more figures to prove the point. Since Nov. 22, the President has held 175 separate meetings on foreign affairs, and has discussed national security 30 times with Defense Secretary McNamara, 51 times with Secretary of State Rusk, 31 times with the Central Intelligence Agency...
...effectively. Nobody is really worried, either, that a big war is imminent, or even that a brush-fire war will grow out of last week's problems. But the problem still must be dealt with, as Lyndon Johnson sees only too well in grappling with his hot-spotted map. "We cannot treat each of these troubles as an isolated crisis in itself," he told a visitor last week, "but only as outbursts resulting from the prolonged tensions gripping the world for the last two decades. Until we have resolved the deeper causes of that tension, one trouble spot will...
...total of 52 major U.S. firms have plants in Puerto Rico (see map). Last year alone, 160 new factories opened their doors, raising the island's total of "Bootstrap" plants to 1,030. G.E. is producing switches and circuit breakers. Sperry Rand is making electric shavers. Maidenform is making bras, and Brunswick, sporting goods. This summer Ford will open a $15 million precision ballbearing factory near San Juan. To keep the momentum going, Puerto Rico is stretching tax exemptions to 17 years in some cases, plans to build small manufacturing plants on its own, then find companies...