Word: rusk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THERE IS a good deal of argument these days over the relevance and validity of the Munich analogy. Dean Rusk argues that the loss of South Vietnam might mean the first step toward global, nuclear war just as surely as the Franco-British capitulation to Hitler in 1938 hastened the outbreak of World...
...Brother-in-Law Gambit. The secrecy and lack of pomp at the ceremony gave rise to the inevitable rumors that the Rusks were trying to downplay the marriage. It was held in California because a Washington wedding would have increased the political ramifications and made it more difficult to keep the guest list unofficial. Moreover, a Washington bash would certainly have increased pressures on the young couple. Jack Foisie, a Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent and brother of Mrs. Rusk, explained to the press that the families wanted "to give the kids a break on the takeoff, because they...
...simple cover was devised. Rusk went to California early in the week, accompanied only by security men, to brief a group of businessmen in Beverly Hills on the war. He then went up to the Bay Area ostensibly to see Brother-in-Law Foisie, who had returned from his post in Bangkok for medical treatment. At the campus church, the wedding roster read Smith-Foisie rather than Smith-Rusk. Although perhaps 200 people in California and Washington knew of the wedding, the essential details were not known until hours before the wedding. One of the few hitches occurred just before...
...prospect for happiness "is an outgrowth of 20th century enlightenment. There is a oneness in the world and a general feeling of equality of man." Even after the bitter summer of 1967, in which black and white collided so often and recklessly, the brave and happy marriage of Peggy Rusk and Guy Smith was a reminder to Americans that the blurred, contending forces of violence are made up after all of individuals capable of the closest human union, regardless of politics, shibboleths and chauvinism-black or white...
Married. Margaret Elizabeth Rusk, 18, the Secretary of State's only daughter; and Guy Gibson Smith, 22, second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserve (see THE NATION...