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...down a table-flat track, Russell gave one final glance at the latest barometer readings in the mountain passes, then climbed two stories to his own eighth-floor throne room. There, folding his 6-ft. 1-in., 207-lb. frame behind a golden-oak desk, he sat down to ponder his constant problem: how to keep profits healthy while engaged in the nation's sickest major industry. Says one S.P. director: "Don spends 25% of his time thinking down the road...
...Ponder that, youse guys...
...implacable challenge of Communism, which incessantly practices intervention of many kinds as an instrument of gradual world domination. To combat Communist interventions, the West must be ready and willing to intervene. Those who would commit the U.S. to nonintervention in the midst of the struggle against Communism might well ponder some lines that Philosopher John Stuart Mill, author of the famous tract On Liberty, wrote more than a hundred years ago: "The doctrine of nonintervention, to be a legitimate principle of morality, must be accepted by all governments. The despots must consent to be bound by it as well...
Kennedy approaches golf with enthusiasm but without dedication. He plays swiftly, rarely pausing to ponder a shot. He almost never completes a full 18-hole round, generally packing up his clubs after 9 or 11. Much of his pleasure comes from wagering on himself. "He'll bet only a dollar or two," says Crooner Bing Crosby, an able golfer and a recent Kennedy opponent at Palm Beach. "But an awful lot of negotiation goes on before the clubs start swinging. He works out the best possible arrangement before he makes a move." Between shots, Kennedy normally appears carefree, needling...
Whether this activity will be enough to cut or stall the Communist offensive is something that General Weller and his chief, Admiral Felt, will have to ponder. Soviet supply lines bring 45 tons of materiel into the Pathet Lao armies every day: Gorky trucks, armored cars, assault rifles, carbines, light and heavy machine guns, 105 howitzers, long-barreled...