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Washington has long hummed with rumors of a Johnson-Nixon "understanding" on Viet Nam-something along the lines of "don't rock the boat." To be sure, the President has pulled the rug out from under Humphrey every time he has deviated from the Administration's position on the war. Two weeks ago, during a heated meeting of the National Security Council, the President heard Defense Secretary Clark Clifford and then-Ambassador to the United Nations George Ball appeal for greater flexibility. Then Johnson delivered a choleric lecture against any gesture to mollify Hanoi. He argued that...
...players all padded onstage to perform Shankar's ensemble piece, V-7½, a vigorous ten-minute raga played at a tricky 7½ beats to the bar. It was also the first time that so many Indian musicians had been seen west of Bombay on one Oriental rug...
...riposte was an angry speech before the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Detroit. "This Administration," he declared, "does not intend to move further until it has good reason to believe that the other side intends seriously to join with us in de-escalating." The speech pulled the rug out from under Humphrey...
...this point I was taken to Colonel Weil's office, a grey office with a worn out rug, reminiscent of what you might see at an unsuccessful corporation...
...their decision to leave the official price intact while abandoning the gold pool, the seven nations pulled a 24-karat rug out from under the hoarders. As Zurich Banker Hans J. Baer put it: "The central banks are saying to the speculators: 'Take it to the dentist.' ! With the London gold market, the world's largest, closed until April 1, the demand for gold dropped abruptly last week in smaller markets elsewhere. In Zurich, gold bars that brought $43 per oz. at the start of the week sold for $39.25 by week's end. In Paris...