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...uppermost levels of the Administration and the Pentagon, where optimism has been endemic from the war's earliest days, officials were still trying to find something comforting in the recent Communist Tet offensive despite all of the evidence to the contrary. Vice President Hubert Humphrey declared that the Saigon regime "if anything has been strengthened by the attack," and on TV the U.S. Ambassador to Saigon, Ellsworth Bunker, in effect agreed. Despite some qualifications made by both men, such statements sounded absurd (see THE WORLD...
...Power is a word uppermost in many a mind. Fulbright published The Arrogance of Power, McCarthy The Limits of Power and Journalist Theodore Draper The Abuse of Power during 1967. Other studies included David Bazelon's Power in America, Nicholas Demerath's Power, Presidents and Professors, and Stokely Carmichael's Black Power...
...Alcohol is absorbed rapidly into the bloodstream. Its most pronounced physiological effects are on the brain. When the blood contains .05% ethyl alcohol, the result is depression of the uppermost level of the brain, compulsiveness and a loss of inhibitions: .10% can affect the lower, motor area of the brain, impairing control of the body: .20% may cause an individual to need help walking; .30% can make him fall into a stupor...
Potential aerial collisions were uppermost in the minds of a group of air-traffic controllers who last week publicly charged that aviation in the U.S. is reaching a "point of public peril." Speaking for the National Association of Government Employees, which represents some 3,000 of the 14,000 air-traffic controllers employed by the Federal Aviation Agency, ex-Controller Stanley Lyman charged that economies in the FAA had resulted in "seriously underequipped, undermanned, undercompensated and underadministered" traffic-control towers and centers. "We are fortunate that we don't have the collisions now," said Lyman...
...nation's capital was astir last week with rumors that the bombing of North Viet Nam has caused a deeply disquieting difference of opinion at the uppermost levels of the Johnson Administration. According to widespread chatter at Washington cocktail parties and in the corridors of Government buildings, the disagreement put Defense Secretary Robert McNamara on one side, plagued by doubts about the value of the bombing, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk on the other, supported by the President, the State Department and McNamara's own Pentagon...