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...executors have never been able to understand why they were put on trial. Explained Hefelmann, who personally was accused of helping to gas 70,000 adults and 3,000 children: "I saw everything from a purely ethical standpoint. An honest affirmation of mercy killings should be seen as a sentiment of Christian sympathy...
...into a financial atmosphere that has never known much but get-rich-quick schemes, boom and bust. It has re-established underwriting as a service for Argentine corporations for the first time since Juan Perón squeezed private underwriters out of business 17 years ago. And from the standpoint of Argentine companies, the stock sales are an excellent hedge against future expropriation; the small investors who consider a company theirs constitute an effective vote bloc...
First stop on the trip was Washington, where President John F. Kennedy gave the group a 35-minute background briefing on Europe as seen from the standpoint of U.S. interest, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk, over lunch, conducted a candid tour of the diplomatic horizons the tour would cross. By the next night the businessmen-turned-journalists were in London, where at a late-hour briefing four of TIME'S key European correspondents-Robert T. Elson (London), Curtis Prendergast (Paris), James Bell (Bonn) and Israel Shenker (Moscow)-filled them in on the people they would...
Down with the Wall. Three old military men-two former chairmen and one ex-member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-expressed stronger reservations: "From a military standpoint," said Air Force General Nathan F. Twining, "the treaty is not in the best interests of our national security." Said Admiral Arthur Radford: "I join with many of my former colleagues in expressing deep concern for our future security." Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, former Chief of Naval Operations, expressed "grave misgivings as to whether this will be a step toward peace...
...been against it." Among the things bothering LeMay: lack of an effective U.S. anti-ballistic missile, failure of the U.S. to develop a 50-to-100-megaton bomb. Said LeMay, whose blue uniform set him apart from his three khaki-clad colleagues: "There are net disadvantages from the military standpoint." Still, since the treaty had been initialed, LeMay was now willing to go along...