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What was her viewpoint on the war? Refreshing. "I'm not a political analyst. I'm not a political columnist." Thinking it over last week after she returned to Chicago, Ann finally reached a decision on whether to write about the Viet Nam situation. She won't. "Not one word...
...body and all its senses," when the pilot sitting in an open cockpit "felt the freshness of rain, and pulling stubborn engines through kept his muscles in condition." In this new age, Lindbergh wrote, "I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines . . . the immortal viewpoint of the higher air ... But I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve . . . To progress, even to survive, we must learn to apply the truths of God to the direction of our science...
...goat in peacetime, "But it's 'Savior of 'is country' when the guns begin to shoot." Wheeler has never indulged in the public griping or corridor grumping of previous JCS chairmen. On the contrary, as the nation's top advocate for the military viewpoint, he has sufficient courage, diplomacy and professional skill both to cooperate effectively with McNamara and argue opposing convictions dispassionately but persuasively within the Administration and before Congress...
...President a one-man creation. From the workaday mechanics of transcribing his own tapes and shorthand notes to the responsibility of passing judgments on his own facts, he worked alone. He insists that he did not hire professional researchers because he wanted the force and conviction of a single viewpoint and, besides, that he was not sure whether the book would make enough money to justify the expense.* He held 267 interviews, and the Kennedys' early stamp of approval gave him easy access to virtually all sources. Indeed, of all the major Government figures involved, only Lyndon Johnson refused...
...John Beatman began editing the Omelette-"It Doesn't Fry People, People Fry It"-because students have "no outlet to express any controversy." Beatman, who was once expelled for wearing a beard, collected a staff of a dozen teen-agers from three Middletown high schools with only one viewpoint in common: "They were dissatisfied with the status...