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...major U.S. embassies, John Kennedy will concentrate on the diplomatic pros-but he is not unwilling to make a few political gestures. These were the names swirling around Foggy Bottom last week: Definitely slated to go to the Court of St. James's is Careerist David K. E. Bruce, who came within an ace of being named Secretary of State. Well-liked Llewellyn Thompson Jr. will remain in Moscow until the next congress of the Communist Party this autumn, when Veteran Kremlinologist Chip Bohlen is likely to undertake his second tour of duty as Ambassador to Russia. "Tommy" Thompson...
While we refrain here from entering into the many pros and cons of the China question--more specifically the nationwide signal that seems to have been given for Red China recognition--it strikes us as worthy of attention to note the increasingly influential roles being assigned in our top echelons of government to former Harvard graduates, including also the new Budget Director David Bell and the new Defense Director Robert McNamara...
...alongside Armstrong in the dominant Western Collegiate Hockey Association are such other far-north recruiters as Colorado College, Michigan Tech and Michigan. Against him stand a clutch of Eastern coaches whose colleges refuse to recruit Canadians and who hotly charge that a flock of the Canadian invaders are really pros by U.S. standards...
...cellar teams. The team has no great passer, no great receiver, no breakaway back-the standard prerequisite for a successful pro team. Instead, Green Bay uses rugged, old-fashioned blocking to open holes for rugged, old-fashioned ball carriers. To Vince Lombardi, 47, even the complex game of the pros can be reduced to the simple principle of knocking people down. "To play in this league," he says, "you've got to be tough-physically tough and mentally tough...
...time at all, Lombardi realized that the Packers had just the kind of back he was looking for: Paul Hornung, ex-Notre Dame quarterback and former golden boy of college football. Like Lombardi's theories, Hornung went against the trend of the pros. In a league of specialists, Hornung could do nothing supremely: his passing, speed and power were only fair. What Hornung could do was play solid football tough enough to please even Lombardi. "You're my left halfback," Lombardi told Hornung. "The only way you can get out of it is to get killed...