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...However, Harry Truman's popularity rating soared to an unbeatable 87% after the presidency was thrust on him, and Humphrey would probably fall heir to a similar fund of sympathy. In any case, according to Kennedy sources, Bobby has no intention of accepting second spot on either a Johnson or a Humphrey ticket...
...Cong casualties. Some squads have been wiped out on deep patrol and some platoons so badly mauled that they could no longer operate as units. The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese have themselves countered with fresh tactics, including deep patrols of their own. But the enemy's main thrust has been at forward U.S. artillery batteries that make American deep patrols both possible and potent. In recent weeks the Communists have launched frantic attacks at U.S. forward fire bases from Camp Carroll along the Demilitarized Zone to Bong Son near the eastern coast. When mortaring, though, they have only...
Died. Sir William Neil Connor, 57, British columnist better known as "Cas sandra," who for 31 years in the London Daily Mirror cut and thrust with fine partiality and fierce wit at everything from Germany to Radio Moscow and Joe McCarthy, plus sports, doctors, dogs, commercial TV and many of its performers; after a long illness; in London. Cassandra once described Liberace as "this deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother-love." And thereupon Liberace sued for libel and won a $22,400 judgment...
...reaction these measures are encountering--notably to civil rights legislation in the North--is the best proof that they have bite. Let there be no doubt about the proper liberal posture in these matters. It is to take pride in the accomplishments and in the great liberal thrust that carried them into effect...
...hour-week routine that teaches them everything from how to avoid guerrilla ambushes to the art of winning over suspicious villagers. The first attempts at civic action are tried in villages near the camps, working with the village headmen in sanitation, security and medical care. But the major thrust of the U.S. effort is relentlessly rugged combat training...