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...with vigor. Seemingly popping up everywhere, the King dashed from TV stations to speakers' platforms to conferences. He appeared on Face the Nation, delivered a major address at Georgetown University, had lunch at Washington's National Press Club, talked with President Johnson, Dean Rusk, Ambassador Goldberg and Walt Rostow. Everywhere he went, he told his listeners that the Arabs had seen the error of their ways. They may have been unrealistic in the past, said Hussein, but they had undergone "a very vast and tremendous change...
...overtones of Johnson's weary-preacher style. Written in close consultation with National Security Adviser Walt W. Rostow, the address explained that the U.S. was in Viet Nam not only because "we cherish freedom and self-determination for all people," but also to look after "our own security." Said Johnson: "I am convinced that by seeing this struggle through now, in Viet Nam, we are reducing the chances of a larger war-perhaps a nuclear...
...High Church voice" in favor of "plain American, which dogs and cats can read." He demanded plain speech and uttered it. Thus his heroes were homespun Wordsworth, unfashionable Kipling, Thomas Hardy, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost and, of course, the greatest American poet to speak for the common man-Walt Whitman...
When 14-year-old Hayley Mills won a special Oscar for her 1960 performance in the title role in Pollyanna, Producer Walt Disney predicted that she would mature "into an actress more beautiful than Elizabeth Taylor and more talented than any star in motion pictures." He was not far wrong. Today, Hayley Mills lacks only Liz's animal splendors. At 21, she is prettier than her pictures, and a natural actress of growing authority and range...
...President himself, to judge from Reston's use of the phrase "highest officials here' and the surefooted way he says, "at this point, it is understood, President Johnson took another tack . . ." Other candidates for Reston's sources in this piece are Rusk; Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach; Walt W. Rostow, special assistant to the President for national security affairs, and McNamara. As a general thing only guidance from men of this rank within the government would encourage Reston or any other reporter to write with such confidence about so sensitive a matter, although more easily than most reporters Reston...