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Incidents on Friday had warned the police to expect trouble. Hostile crowds met demonstrators both at the Boston Army base and in the North End. Then, heckling quickly turned into spitting and slugging. The temper of the pro-administration onlookers was obviously violent...
...combat capacity in West Germany, McNamara declared: "It is absolutely untrue, and you are the first that ought to know it. I'm sick and tired of having implications made that we have drawn down the forces in Western Europe when we haven't." McNamara lost his temper again when Cowles publications' Washington Correspondent Clark Mollenhoff, a longtime foe, persistently accused him of dodging questions about an adverse report by the Preparedness Subcommittee that the Pentagon has refused to release. The Defense Secretary said bitterly: "I unfortunately haven't been able to dodge all the rocks...
...sheer and pervasive fervor, the love of nationhood has no equal among contemporary political passions. Independence is the fetish, fad and totem of the times. Everybody who can muster a quorum in a colony wants Freedom Now-and such is the temper of the age that they can usually have it. Roughly one-third of the world, some 1 billion people, have run up their own flags in the great dismantlement of empires since World War II, creating 60 new nations over the face of the earth. In the process they have also created, for themselves and for the world...
...N.Y.U. and Navy, the only final powers outside the Ivy League, will undoubtedly be taking the Easterns more seriously than the Nationals this year.
After writing a simple formula to ex press this relationship, Kennedy applied it first to a determination of the temper ature in the earth's core -until now calculated by extrapolation of Lindemann's Law to be 13,500° F. Instead of the estimated pressure at the earth's inner core (3,000,000 atmospheres), he used the experimentally derived density of iron at this pressure -about twice its density at sea level. Putting that figure into his formula, he arrived at a new and more realistic estimate of the heat in the earth...