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...L.B.J., the Chief Executive's health is no longer his private business. Nor should it be, for since World War II the U.S. President's role in world affairs, and his ability to discharge it, have become matters of global concern. With television and jet planes to thrust him into homes and home towns the world over, the President is also much closer to the people than ever before. This was recognized by Jim Hagerty, Eisenhower's press secretary, who with Dr. Paul Dudley White was largely responsible for the detailed exegesis of the President...
...Thrust toward Learning. The notion that any federal bureaucrat, no matter how enlightened, should wield any influence at all in education would have shocked America's early settlers. Schooling was mainly a parental responsibility, and its aim was to make sure that children learned to read the Bible. The Constitution was silent on the matter of education, and schooling became a function of state governments, which delegated power to towns and local school boards. Still, the main thrust of education was directed chiefly at achieving spiritual and moral purity. Fresh ideas, however, had begun to emerge. In Europe, Jean...
...came to the U.S. for a concert tour, but was stranded when the promoters went bankrupt. Literally down to his last nickel, he joined the fiddle section of Manhattan's Capitol Theater orchestra. Five days later, when the conductor suddenly took ill 15 minutes before showtime, Ormandy was thrust onto the podium for the first time because, naturally, he was the only musician who knew Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony by heart. Presto! "I discovered a new instrument, richer and fuller than the violin-the orchestra...
...Dagger Thrust. By last week it was evident that Hanoi had lost far more than the momentum of its own tidy timetable for the war. The latest series of reports to Saigon from U.S. officials stationed in each of the nation's 43 provinces showed a marked improvement in peasant morale, and confidence in Premier Ky's government. There is also a sharp increase in willingness to inform on the Viet Cong-and to cooperate with the anti-Communist forces. A small but significant example of this occurred in Ben Cat last week when a V.C. terrorist stepped...
...Moreover, the U.S. is constantly adding to its variety of offensive capabilities: fortnight ago, 15 miles south of Qui Nhon, a U.S. Marine raiding force in battalion strength stormed ashore from assault boats of the Seventh Fleet's amphibious task force, swept three coastal areas in Operation Dagger Thrust. Though the marines nabbed few V.C. this time, Dagger Thrust is a valuable new tactic.Since the task force's troops are always based at sea rather than in shore installations, security can be complete-and so can the surprise of the stab. Near Danang, the marines were using...