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Camelot Commandos. Other trappings of the campaign also evoke 1960. Kennedy siblings and offspring, those born to the clan or sworn to its ser vice, abound on the trail and in the back rooms. Reporters seeing the familiar figures of the Kennedy sisters, Pierre Salinger, Kenny O'Donnell, Steve Smith, Tex Sorensen, and so many other names, now eight years older, have begun talking about the "Camelot commandos." Yet the aver age age of Bobby's top six political advisers is still only...
...only answer to the nation's malaise. "We wouldn't do this cruddy work for anybody but Gene McCarthy," says Ann, who lost 18 Ibs. during her New Hampshire duty, and slept a straight 16 hours on returning to her Washington home. "We've sworn ourselves...
...third-floor of fice of the Pentagon's E-Ring could not have assumed command at a more critical juncture. As Clark McAdams Clifford, 61, was sworn in last week as the nation's ninth Secretary of Defense, succeeding Robert S. McNamara, the U.S. once again stood at a crossroads in Viet Nam-perhaps the most important one. And it is Clifford who, from the massive desk once owned by General of the Armies John ("Black Jack") Pershing, will play a major and possibly decisive role in determining which path the U.S. takes...
...late October twenty-three were sworn in and flew to Delhi, to undergo two more months of arid training before assignment to their villages. There are now twenty...
John Grey Gorton, 56, likes to say that he is "Australian to my boot heels." He is an avid sportsman (tennis, swimming, water-skiing), a cool politician with an instinct for shrewdness and enterprise, and a demanding boss with a reputation for firmness and hard work. Sworn in last week as Australia's 19th Prime Minister-succeeding the late Harold Holt, who drowned last month off Portsea (TIME, Dec. 29)-Gorton is also very much his own man. He will probably wield a stronger, more decisive leadership than Holt and bend slightly to the left in his domestic policy...