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...First and Seventh Fleets, the Fifth and Thirteenth Air Forces, and the Army's 1st, 7th and 25th Infantry Division. Highly mobile and thoroughly trained, the elements of this mighty force need only hear the whistle to move into direct action. If it blows, Major General Donald Weller, Commander of the 3rd Marine Division and an old jungle fighter, will become Commander of Joint Task Force 116 for Laos, report directly to Felt, who in turn will answer to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Late last week Weller flew into Tokyo for conferences with Vice Admiral Charles Griffin, Commander...
...CINCPAC's forces would respond to the shots as Weller called them: ∙Seventh Fleet attack carriers (with 100 jets) under Griffin, are just a few hours off Viet...
TIME correspondents in city after city found Americans thinking well beyond pot roast as they measured personal involvement with news. Said Sam Weller, a Salt Lake City book salesman: "We're going in the right direction now. There is no need for the United States merely to be caught up in events. We can control them." And nearly every eye was on Washington to see whether "we" - mean ing the President of the U.S. - would. "God. I hope he's up to it, " said a Los Angeles housewife apprehensively. In Albuquerque, Alice Schaab, wife of a tax lawyer...
...while his lab was partly financed by a grant from the National Foundation, Enders took a flyer in polio virus culture. With Drs. Frederick Robbins and Thomas Weller, he found a way to grow the virus so that a safe vaccine could be made. For this work, on which the Salk and all later polio vaccines are based, the trio got a 1954 Nobel Prize. Harvard recognized Dr. Enders' greatness by naming him a full professor in 1956. Perpetual Fame. In 1953 Enders asked Dr. Thomas Peebles, assistant in his lab at Children's Hospital in Boston, whether...
...best stories" of Editor Zabel's choosing include second-rate ghost thrillers and third-rate detective stories. At novel length, Dickens could create memorable caricatures, e.g., Mr. Micawber, Uriah Heep, Madame Defarge. In the short stories, his characters are mere mannerisms. In the novels, Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller produce idiosyncratic dialogue; in the short stories there is only an endless chatty...