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Secretary of State Dean Rusk at week's end gingerly held out the possibility of a brief pax in hello-on the ground and in the air-over Christmas and, seven weeks later, during Tet, the Vietnamese New Year. Rusk pointedly withheld any promise of an extended unilateral truce. "We ought to distinguish," he added, "between what might happen at Christmas and the idea of a general pause." The Administration maintains that the bombing is essential since it ties down 100,000 North Vietnamese in repair work and disrupts the flow of men and matériel. By contrast...
...signally failed to do this despite his landslide victory in 1964, Johnson's Great Society so far looks better in the record books than in the nation's neighborhoods and schoolrooms. Far from giving him the ultimate power that goes with their assent, most Americans have withheld it be cause they vaguely fear that he already has too much power...
...changed that, and thus gave Republican Kirk his big chance, was Tennessee-born Bob High, now in his fifth term as mayor of Miami. Proclaiming that "the issue is integrity," Teetotaler High upset Incumbent Governor Haydon Burns in an acrimonious Democratic primary fight (TIME, June 3). Burns has withheld support from High, and many Burns followers-including the wealthiest backers-have become "Demo-Kirks...
Ford said that he hoped the Faculty would take a clear position against computing class rankings as a permanent policy. He withheld an opinion, however, on whether it should actually advocate ending the present use of ranks as a criterion for student deferments. "I'm still mulling that over in my own mind," Ford declared...
...Warschaw, a Harvey Aluminum heiress, has been muttering under her breath about Brown's treachery ever since her narrow defeat, and has withheld her considerable resources from the campaign...