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...entire place is quiet for the first time while the powerful PA system, modulated to carry over the expected room noise at any convention, is blasting him over a silent audience. The effect is overpowering. The process: a desert rose blooming in a slow-motion Walt Disney movie. The product: the force of a natural phenomenon, electronically produced...
Unknown to the world outside, Warsaw Pact troops were pouring across Czechoslovakia's borders. In his White House basement office, Walt Rostow was routinely examining the backlog of paper that accumulates each evening on the desk of the President's special assistant for national security. The first hint of crisis came at 7:05 p.m., when Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin told Rostow by telephone: "I have a message from Moscow which I am translating. I have been instructed to give it orally to the President...
...Body, Julia Ward Howe returned to the Willard and wrote out the lines of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. After the Union defeat at the first Bull Run, Willard's put on 30 extra bootblacks to scrape the red Virginia clay from the boots of returning officers. Walt Whitman watched the scene in the barroom and wrote angrily: "Sneak, blow, put on airs there in Willard's sumptuous parlors and barrooms, or anywhere-no explanation will save you. Bull Run is your work." Prices at the hotel's tobacco stand made Woodrow Wilson's Vice...
...society of Americans that has watched hour-long Walt Disney TV programs about how he puts together the plastic rhinos in the jungle waters of Disneyland, a society that rips through the latest issues of Playboy and Esquire to read about the technical aparatus behind the gimmicks in the James Bond movies, a society that fills its newsstands with dozens of pulp magazines about the off-screen identities of its on-screen stars--these are pretty sophisticated movie-watchers...
Moscow's move caught U.S. policymakers by surprise, although Lyndon Johnson and Special Assistant Walt Rostow made no effort to conceal their glee. For 17 months, the Russians had rebuffed every U.S. overture, including Johnson's disarmament plea at the United Nations three weeks ago. Then, in an address to the Supreme Soviet last week, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko declared that Moscow was "ready for an exchange of opinion" on the missile issue. Said Gromyko: "The current revolutionary epoch is doing away with the traditional concepts of strength." Stripped of Marxist-Leninist bafflegab, Gromyko's speech presumably...