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...depots around Hanoi and Haiphong was vital to the U.S. war effort. Now that the President has accepted that approach-also urged on him by the Joint Chiefs of Staff-the insistent adviser's influence in the Ad ministration's inner circle has increased considerably. The man: Walt Whitman Rostow, 49, the garrulous, determined special assistant who three months ago inherited part of McGeorge Bundy's job at the White House...
Still, more and more people are beginning to feel that things are going well in Viet Nam, and Walt Rostow's elevation from the basement reflects far more than Pollyannish optimism. Soon after Johnson took office, Rostow (then a top State Department policy planner) said flatly: "Viet Nam is Johnson's Cuba; it will make him or break him." As one of the Administration's toughest-talking hawks, he began urging heavy commitments of ground troops early in Kennedy's tenure-nearly four years before Johnson actually made the decision in 1965. In a town where...
...voice competition. At first glance, Marsh seemed too good to sing true. A tall (5 ft. 11 in.) blonde with a fresh-scrubbed athletic look, she is the embodiment of a capitalist American background. She was a tomboy, an expert swimmer, a 4-H girl who in true Walt Disney tradition sold her favorite horse to pay for music lessons. She sang in public professionally for the first time only last season, when Erich Leinsdorf signed her to sing in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Boston...
...never been easy. Nearly 100 years ago, Walt Whitman, in his eccentric language, urged America to "eclaircise the myths Asiatic, the primitive fables." The myths and fables, the romantic dreams as well as the shrewd half truths of colonial times, firmly established a belief in the impenetrable differentness of Asia. The situation was not helped by the fact that Asia itself had produced strikingly little written history. Today growing numbers of Americans have firsthand knowledge of how Asians think and feel, act and react -even though such knowledge is always beset by the danger of oversimplification. Diplomats, soldiers, businessmen, journalists...
...most plausible theories blame injury, age, and academic pressure for the downfall of sophomore stars. There is a little truth in each of these; long-distance runner Walt Hewlett, wrestler Howard Durfee, or alpine skier Mark Jensen were all hampered by injuries, and yet they are the exceptions. The percentage of injuries is so small that it cannot be a significant cause in athletic decay. Older athletes at Harvard occasionally slow down but rarely quit. At the age of 23 or 24, it is understandable that Awori or butterflier Neville Hayes never matched their sophomore performances, especially after having already...