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...Johnson's order, McNamara also announced plans to trim civilian employment by the Defense Department, both in the U.S. and abroad, by another 25,000 before July 1, 1965. And at week's end he made it plain that there was more coming. Said McNamara: "We have just scratched the surface...
...Well, that's just how he was until he decided he didn't like the way the image fit. Or maybe it was the clothes. First, he chucked the cigars, then he cut out drinking and went on a diet. Now he's down to a trim 39-in. waist and a sylphlike 220 lbs., and he aims to shave off 20 lbs. more. Hooted a 190-lb. Republican state legislator: "His loss of weight only parallels his loss of stature in the public...
...right was his wife Lady Bird. Behind them ranged White House staff members; Larry O'Brien and Kenneth O'Donnell were in tears; the shirt cuffs of Rear Admiral George Burkley, President Kennedy's personal physician, bore bloodstains. Federal District Judge Sarah T. Hughes, a trim, tiny woman of 67 whom Kennedy had appointed to the bench in 1961, pronounced the oath in a voice barely audible over the engines. Johnson, his left hand on a small black Bible, his right held high, repeated firmly: I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office...
This carefully tooled engine of mu sic is the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, a group of 22 young, well-tempered muzykanly currently touring the U.S. with a rich repertory that runs from Bach to Bartok. At the wheel is Conductor Rudolf Barshai, 39, a trim violist who organized the group in 1955 at the Moscow Conservatory...
Since the grain deal is tricky politics at best, the Kennedy Administration is doing its best to make it appear no giveaway. Anxious to see the deal go through, U.S. shippers have agreed to trim their prices to within a few dollars of foreign rates. The Administration also has another way around its shipping dilemma: let its eager private dealers sell the grain on a "cost-and-freight" basis, under which they will arrange the shipping themselves, and include the cost in the total package. The dealers will take a chance on getting smaller profits if they have to ship...