Word: mc
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...last days, but they are rapidly approaching that point. The Great Society is sputtering along in low gear because, as one Administration official put it, "the governmental structure has outrun the funds." Rumors of wholesale resignations are making the rounds in Washington in the wake of Robert Mc-Namara's decision to quit the Defense Department. United Nations Ambassador Arthur Goldberg is expected to depart within a few months; Labor Secretary Willard...
...leary of trying to read the President's mind. Even so, more than a few observers were warily-and hopefully-raising the name of Cyrus Roberts Vance, the former Deputy Defense Secretary whom Johnson had drafted for an arduous diplomatic assignment in Cyprus (see THE WORLD) well after Mc-Namara's departure was decided...
...from U.N.C.L.E. a TV hit be cause people like spy stories or because they are fascinated with David Mc-Callum's thatched hairdo? Did John...
...could stage an Inchon-style landing north of the 17th parallel, silence the guns that are raking Con Thien and Gio Linh, and pull out again. And, as the Joint Chiefs unanimously recommend, bombers could mine Haiphong harbor-a proposal that has consistently been rejected by Johnson, Mc-Namara and Dean Rusk. Were Haiphong choked off, argues Joint Chief Chairman General Earle Wheeler, most of the $1-billion-a-year flow of arms from Russia would dry up and the war would end in a "relatively" short time...
TOPAZ by Leon Uris. 341 pages. Mc-Graw-Hill...