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...hard-eyed reappraisers are all over the Camelot of John F. Kennedy these days, checking the towers with their plumb lines, chipping at the mortar between the stones, skeptically testing the house that Jack built for substance and integrity. And please don't talk to them about "style...
Perhaps that's not the best plan. Perhaps one of Plans 1-4 is. But that is something this community ought to decide for itself--before the logic of mortar and bricks decides...
...important, at this point, to set aside the issues of mortar and bricks and to examine both the decision-making process itself and the premises upon which it is based. There are two major problems with the way in which the discussions about building construction have been carried...
Peterson has made himself a leader in U.S. diplomacy toward the East, in line with the Nixon Administration principle that relations with Communist nations are best cemented by economic mortar. In talks with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and other officials, the Commerce chief has formed the out lines of a U.S.-Russian arrangement in which U.S. goods and technology would be exchanged for huge amounts of Soviet natural gas and other fuels. Last month he signed an agreement with Poland that will grant U.S. Export-Import Bank credits to the country, and is expected in five years to triple...
...many Communist troops been dug in so close to Saigon. Small-unit attacks are now coming from a 270° arc around the capital, and they draw closer every day. Reports TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand: "Watching the action on Highway 13 to the north of Saigon is like watching mortar rounds being walked in on a position. Each day, when one drives up the highway through the flat open rice fields, progress is stopped closer to Saigon." The going on Route 1 is just as tough. The elite 81st Special Airborne Ranger Brigade, which helped save An Loc and recapture...