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...hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee were something less than the constitutional debate they set out to be. Mired from the outset in moot legalistic questions, the sessions became instead an outlet for the unease and bitterness with which most committee members-liberals and conservatives alike-view Lyndon Johnson's management...
Marching before the Ways and Means Committee with a squadron of aides and a stupefaction of statistics were the President's fiscal troika: Henry Fowler, Budget Director Charles L. Schultze and Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Gardner Ackley. At the outset, Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills, whose opposition spells finis for any tax package on the Hill, noted ominously: "I regret exceedingly the circumstances that bring you here...
...From the outset, the race crisis crackled with electoral electricity. The Detroit riot brought the first confrontation between Lyndon Johnson and Michigan's Governor George Romney, who, despite some slippage in recent months, is still a formidable possibility for the next Republican presidential nomination. Both men were sensitive to the big-and unpredictable-implications for 1968 in everything they...
...indicated at the outset, Jennifer Tipton's lighting is first-class, and contributes more to the production than does any of the players besides Colicos. On the whole her lighting is less murky than one normally gets. And she rightly employs a warm, mellow glow only once--for Duncan's arrival at Inverness Castle. She makes some use of a follow-spot, but it is never obtrusive in musical-comedy fashion. Many of her effects would be impossible without the marvelous unit set designed by Rouben Ter-Arutunian--two converging cavernous walls of shiny but unsmooth silver, parts of which...
...North Viet Nam is paying a tremendous price with nothing to show for it in return. The war is not a stalemate. We are winning, slowly but steadily." So said General William Westmoreland last week in Saigon as he briefed Robert McNamara at the outset of the Defense Secretary's ninth visit to Viet Nam. If his tone was uncharacteristically defensive, that was understandable. In recent months, it has become apparent that the war in Viet Nam is not going entirely according to the U.S. scenario for 1967. McNamara's trip will help to determine whether Westmoreland gets...