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...pass fairly well, and is probably the most knowledgeable field general. Foster, who split duties with Crone on the freshman team last year, is the flashiest competitor since John McCluskey to challenge for the quarterback slot. The speediest, most elusive runner on the team, he is a superb scrambler and is extremely dangerous when given daylight. But his passing is deficient, and this is a serious problem to bring to a system that will use three receivers. The Crimson coaches would love to switch him to halfback. Foster isn't particularly wild about the idea...
...week long, Henry Cabot Lodge, the new U.S. chief negotiator for the Paris peace talks, had been working late into the night, briefing himself, staying close to the scrambler telephone that links the Paris Embassy to Washington. How did he feel about the prospects for settlement of the Viet Nam war? "I am the most hopeful man you have ever known in your life," he told newsmen. Lodge, as the first formal session quickly demonstrated, will probably need all the optimism he can muster in the months ahead. While the meeting began on a cool and correct note, it quickly...
...Executive Secretary of the State Department; William Bundy, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and his aide, Hay ward Isham; and Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach. Not even these precautions were considered entirely reliable when particularly touchy issues were involved. At such times, scrambler telephones and even couriers were used in preference to cables...
From Washington, President Johnson kept track of each twist and turn in the haggling through coded cables and scrambler telephone calls, personally ordered the U.S. stand on each sensitive deal. The main thrust of those decisions-forwarded to Geneva through the White House Kennedy Round liaison staff with the secret code name "the potatoes group"-was to swap U.S. industrial concessions for lower European barriers to U.S. farm exports...
Lack of practice means quite a bit to touch men like Tom Wynne, who will probably play number five today. Wynne is a scrambler, a short game expert, and not playing could mean trouble...