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...attack boasts a 27-year old Vietnam vet who once practiced with Roger Staubach on the sands of Saigon, a high school pal of Brown's Nino Moscardi (a dubious distinction), and a three-letter late-night scorer for San Miguel High...
Military progress has been slow. The groups say they have been concentrating on political work in the countryside. They say they are not vet at the stage where they can attack towns or strategic targets...
...effort to ease their financial strain, some 350 veterans converged on Duluth last week to plan a campaign of political action. Why Duluth? "Because," said one vet, "the hotels offered to put us up for four dollars a head a night, that's why. We're all broke." Arriving by bus, motorcycle and thumb, delegates of the National Association of Collegiate Veterans (N.A.C.V.), which claims 500 chapters representing 250,000 veterans, began efforts to revise and update the obsolete G.I. Bill...
...Observer, not to mention what was then the world's largest magazine-publishing business. By the end of World War I, he considered himself important enough to make a virtual takeover bid for the Lloyd George administration, proposing to the Prime Minister that he be allowed to vet his ministerial appointments (Lloyd George declined). Northcliffe died...
...Democratic National Committee, Robert Strauss of Dallas. Connally and Strauss attended law school together and have remained close friends and political allies ever since. And it is curious that large sums of oil money in Dallas are reportedly being mobilized by Johnson's staff-for an as vet unspecified reason. The appeal for funds follows the line. "If you gave $2000 before, we want $20.000 now." Strauss himself says little beyond "no comment" or "Who knows what will happen...