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...swarm of Harvard professors who have joined the lemminglike migration to the Kennedy Administration happily noted a quid pro quo: Phillip E. Areeda, a White House legal adviser to Dwight D. Eisenhower, departed Washington to join the faculty of Harvard Law School...
...Redstone spouted flame and rose on what seemed to be the planned trajectory. When the Redstone burned out, the capsule was supposed to separate, coast to an altitude of 115 miles, then fall to the sea 298 miles downrange, where a swarm of ships and aircraft was waiting to grab...
...small-scale dry run down Pennsylvania Avenue, pronounced everything satisfactory. They arranged for a helicopter to hover over the parade and radio traffic information to an Army-run command post. There, in a van off Pennsylvania Avenue, a control center was fitted out with radio-telephone connections to a swarm of roving observers. Closed-circuit TV cameras focused on possible bottlenecks, relayed their pictures to a row of TV monitors at the command post...
...present situation in Laos," said the Pentagon's announcement, "we are taking normal precautionary actions to increase the readiness of our forces in the Pacific." Cutting short a holiday at Hong Kong, the aircraft carriers Lexington and Bennington steamed off into the South China Sea, accompanied by a swarm of destroyers, plus troopships loaded with marines. On the U.S.'s island base of Okinawa, Task Force 116, made up of Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force units, got braced to move southward on signal...
...Castro reviewed 100,000 militiamen in Havana and harangued the crowd celebrating his second anniversary in power, a bomb exploded near by. Raging that those responsible "received the splendid money with which the United States embassy paid for terrorism." Castro said that he would put a stop to the "swarm of Central Intelligence Service and FBI and Pentagon agents who have been operating here with impunity. The revolutionary government has decided that within 48 hours the United States embassy shall not have here one more official than we have in the United States-eleven...