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Perhaps this notion of taking bureaucracy into the field will catch on with other departments. Defense Secretary, Melvin Laird, for example, could spend the season at Khe Sanh, getting a sense of what his men are up against. Secretary of State, William Rogers, could summer in the Sinai, while Labor Secretary, James Hodgson, might spend August in downtown Detroit. A summer on Wall Street might hone Treasury Secretary, John Connally's mind. Commerce Secretary, Maurice Stans could work out of the Baltimore docks, and HEW Secretary, Elliot Richardson out of any slum of his choosing...
...only treaty were signed, many U.S. experts believe, the Russians might never come back to the bargaining table. Having stripped U.S. ICBM sites of their ABM protection, the argument goes, the Russians would proceed full blast with deployment of the S59 and even bigger missiles. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird recently reported that an "apparently extensive" new Soviet ICBM construction program is already in progress in south-central Russia...
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...surreal rhetoric. He simply watches, a patient artist, a patient man, and it happens for him. When Jane, disobedient at last, walks past her plantation owner to take part in a demonstration, a code goes crack, as surely, as naturally as a root pushing up through concrete. · Melvin Maddocks...