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...includes 554 ICBMs, 176 submarine-launched Polaris Al and A2 solid-fueled missiles (90% reliable in tests), 630 B-52 bombers and 720 B-47s. In "cross-targeting," as many as six missiles may be trained on a single target, with a wave of "follow-on" bombers ready to mop up if anything goes wrong. Says Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay: "If kiddie cars will do the job, we will use them...
John Kennedy had first come to Harvard 27 years earlier. He entered the college in the fall of 1936--a thin, 19-year-old graduate of Choate with a mop of unruly hair and a tooth-paste ad smile. Originally, he did not want to come to Harvard. Kennedy enrolled at Princeton in 1935, but a case of yellow jaundice forced him to withdraw. His four years as a Harvard undergraduate were to be inconsistent, as were his later relations with the University...
...Spot & Mop. Overjoyed at his son's return, the Gimo nevertheless thought him too Russian in his outlook and had him tutored for two years to "make him Chinese again." Ever since, Ching-kuo has loyally and efficiently handled a succession of jobs for his father, ranging from operating a concentration camp for Communist suspects on Green Island to creating a system of political commissars to check on loyalty in the army. Under Ching-kuo, Nationalist guerrillas probe the mainland for soft spots in the defenses and public disaffection with the Red regime. Over the past two years, some...
...mingle with lunch-hour throngs, or wander through the halls affecting that where-is-the-personnel-department look, until he finds what he is really after. Thieves masquerade as job seekers, repairmen, delivery boys, messengers. And some manage to clean up simply by walking around with a mop...
...Kennedy, he is primarily interested in actually passing bills, and less in the proper ways. His judgements are concise, devoid of rationalization and pussy-footing: "I just did not go along with Clark on the rules fight." The bills Ribicoff has introduced are not radical, but are simply mop-ups on his work in HEW. He hasn't introduced anything specifically to help Connecticut, although he considers the recently passed Mass Transit Bill to be an answer to his campaign promise to help the Fairfield County commuters. On the Finance Committee, he considers himself a representative of New England...