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What Salisbury saw - or was allowed to see - during his quick tour of Hanoi and its environs was, almost exclusively, widespread devastation in civilian areas; he was not taken near the military facil ities around those areas. "President Johnson's announced policy that American targets in North Viet Nam are steel and concrete rather than human lives," he wrote, "seems to have little connection with the reality of attacks carried out by U.S. planes." He reported 89 killed in one town, 40 in another, 24 in a third. In Nam Dinh, third largest city in the North (population...
William Manchester, stricken with trichinosis, enters Flower Fifth Avenue Mrs. John F. Kennedy sends him a candy-gram. After a ten-minute walking tour of South Vietnam, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara predicts the war will be over...
...negative. We continued our broad coverage of the Vietnamese war, beginning with the Man of the Year cover story on General William Westmoreland. Also memorable, we feel, were our report on the South African situation, which featured Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on the cover shortly before his assassination; our tour of swinging London; and the introduction of several new leaders on the world scene, including Germany's new chancellor, Kurt Kiesinger...
...gravity and hurled to Neptune - like a skater at the end of a crack-the-whip line - in only 8.1 years. The scientists also discovered that the outer planets would be so fortuitously positioned that a spacecraft launched on Oct. 7, 1978, could actually make a 8.9-year "grand tour," passing close to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in turn and receiving a gravitational boost from each...
...have to import a Communist. Thus Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, the Harvard Divinity School and Jesuit-run St. Louis University were among the dozen institutions that played host to Roger Garaudy, the chief theoretician of the French Communist Party, while he was on a brief U.S. lecture tour this month. Last week officials of the Soviet embassy in Washington went out to Maryland's Woodstock Seminary for an evening of informal discussions with the Jesuit faculty and seminarians, including Father John Courtney Murray...