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McNamara must also ponder where he would get additional troops, and how much they would cost. While one division could be created before the end of the year from the divisions and brigades still left in the U.S., anything more than that would require higher draft calls or some call-up of Reserves. And while one additional division could operate within the present logistic base in Viet Nam, with only a small (10,000 men) supply detachment of its own, two or three divisions would require a much broader support base-and many more men. Thus, since it would need...
...studio audience rollicked to that line, but the lady in Nebraska rose from her chair, muttering, "That's not so funny, McGee!" With that, she swept into the kitchen to brew a pot of coffee. And no doubt to ponder the mysterious equations of show business that have enabled her son John to become the nation's midnight idol by telling silly jokes like that...
...move the Pope to action was doubtful. In Rome, Vatican officials announced that Pope Paul still had no intention of being hurried into making a ruling. In fact, said one prominent Vatican priest, the latest leak might well turn out to be controproducente (counterproductive): it might encourage Paul to ponder the issue even longer...
...also including Edna Ferber and Faith Baldwin-who flourished in the '20s and '30s, weathered the '40s, and have been losing much of their audience ever since. They appealed to women who had got the vote and, later, the household appliances that set them free to ponder Womanhood. What they wanted to hear was how tough it all had been, and no one told them more relentlessly than Author Buck, who, in her 32 novels and obsessive memoir writing, has ennobled the distaff drudge while painting a bleak picture of men and marriage...
...Supreme Court this week will begin to ponder the most significant railroad case to reach it since Teddy Roosevelt 65 years ago successfully fought J. P. Morgan and James J. Hill by contesting what has come to be called the Great Northern case. The question before the Justices: whether, and on what terms, to approve the merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central into a $6 billion line stretching over 20,000 miles of track that would represent the largest private rail system in the world. By coincidence, the week also marks the fifth anniversary...