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...Shopping List. What is a whiz kid? Well, by definition he is young and bright. The tools of his Pentagon trade are a piece of chalk, a blackboard on which to slash equations, and a computing machine. Dispassionate, cold analysis is his business, and Systems Analyst Enthoven has no peer. His analysis of the workings of the Pentagon goes as follows: "I think it can best be described as a continuing dialogue between the policymaker and the systems analyst, in which the policymaker [McNamara] asks for alternative solutions to his problems, while the analyst attempts to clarify the conceptual framework...
...dossiers of resident foreigners and eye new arrivals at Hellenikon airport. Greek army engineers prowled the sewers of Athens, searching for hidden bombs; grey-uniformed cops stood guard 25 yards apart along the eight-mile parade route. Emotionally, a retired Greek general announced that he was personally ready to slash his wrists to give blood, if De Gaulle were shot. More prudently, Greece's Premier Constantine Karamanlis had his own blood typed, in case he got in the way of any shooting...
Threats of Reprisal. Unlike U.S. steelmen, who bank their furnaces when demand drops but keep prices fairly steady, the Europeans prefer to slash prices and keep production high to avoid politically unpopular layoffs and the expensive overhead of idle plants. In addition, Belgium and Luxembourg, argue that they must export at almost any price to get foreign exchange to finance their heavy imports. The angry Common Marketeers contend that the U.S.'s anti-dumping law is outmoded in that it restricts free trade, but they have little hope that the U.S. Government will do anything to encourage further competition...
...process, get in some pretty good cracks at Democrat John Kennedy. Kennedy's fiscal policies, Rocky said, were "gutless." The President's public-works spending programs amounted to a political "slush fund." Like Kennedy, Rockefeller is for a tax cut-in fact, he argued for an immediate slash of $10 billion. But he also wanted drastic reductions in federal spending. Given these, he insisted, the U.S. could show a budget surplus in 1965 instead of the $12 billion deficit that Rocky foresees under present Kennedy plans...
...half years ahead of schedule, the Common Market nations voted another 10% slash in each nation's customs duties on industrial imports from other members of the community, and agreed to cut by 20% the average tariff on a wide range of industrial goods imported from outside the Common Market. The latest reduction was intended as a good-will gesture on the eve of tariff-cutting negotiations with the U.S. in Geneva next month. However, what the U.S. is primarily anxious to secure at Geneva-its European market for agricultural exports-will not be up for negotiation, since...