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...Diddling Around. When McNamara repeated his well-known-and well-reasoned-opposition to deployment of an anti-ballistic missile system (ABM) this year, Wheeler pointed out that for two years the Joint Chiefs have unanimously urged deployment of this defensive network. Among other things, Wheeler argued, it would "demonstrate to the Soviets and our allies that the U.S. is not first-strike minded...
...Saigon area felt the tremors of the Russian-made 122-mm. rockets. For the first time, the North Vietnamese used Russian-made SAM missiles to bring down a U.S. fighter-bomber operating over the Demilitarized Zone-an ominous southward extension of their al ready widespread missile network. And for the first time, Communist troops used flamethrowers, made in China, against U.S. troops...
Company Strikes. Some 5,000 to 8,000 men a month go down the network of trails to fight in South Viet Nam, though of late the traffic has largely been in supplies. To keep the roads open under the daily bombing, Hanoi employs a large assortment of heavy earth-moving equipment at night, plus the labor of some 40,000 coolies. An estimated 5,000 trucks ply the trail, but bicycles and even elephants are also used. Some 25,000 North Vietnamese troops are stationed in Laos to guard the vital Red flow southward. Where traffic is heaviest...
Commercially, the show is sold out well in advance, and its annual network billings of $20 million enable Tonight to gross more than any other entertainment program on television. It is not only the size of the audience that attracts Carson's advertisers, but its quality as well. His viewers are mostly urban and at least high-school-educated-young enough to stay up late with ease, or successful enough not to have to show up too early for work. Jimmy Stewart watches, and so do Bobby Kennedy, Ed Sullivan, Darryl Zanuck, New York's Mayor John Lindsay...
Muzzy Hours. But Carson's chief attraction is Carson. An assured, natural entertainer-he was already a network headliner at 29-Johnny is the epitome of cool. He is intelligent, laconic, deferential and facile. On occasion, he asks the studio audience to submit questions to him on any subject. Somebody once asked: "Are women permitted in Hurley's bar [the NBC hangout in Rockefeller Center]?" Replied Carson swiftly: "Permitted to do what...