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...intelligence, the Communists have built fortifications, increased their artillery firepower 30%, laid out 40 airfields, and moved in more than 400 aircraft, including at least 150 MIG-15 jets -all in violation of the armistice terms. Truce inspection, instead of enforcing the armistice, had simply screened the steady Red buildup...
Over the breakfast Ike asked Art Langlie to run for the Senate next year against Democratic incumbent Warren Magnuson. "Maggy," who has been busy churning out favors for constituents, will be no pushover, especially for a Republican with little advance buildup. Ike, loath to lose able Ikeman Langlie from the political scene, promised that if Langlie takes on Magnuson: i) the White House will chan nel federal patronage and aid programs through the governor, and 2) Dwight Eisenhower will campaign...
...Party Secretary Khrushchev's cure for Soviet economic ills fell into two parts: 1) increasing wheat production in Siberia and the development of U.S.-type animal husbandry in western Russia and the Ukraine, 2) a crackdown on consumer industry and consumer spending in favor of a buildup of heavy industry. He even found himself praising the U.S. to make a point. Khrushchev is impressed by the way "Americans have succeeded in achieving a high level of animal husbandry." The answer for Soviet Russia, he said, is the widespread U.S. planting of hybrid corn for fodder. Khrushchev urged that collectives...
Handsome Abe Ribicoff invited newspapermen to lunch at Bloomfield's Tumble Brook Country Club to outline his plans, told them he wants no pressagent-"a big press buildup is the worst thing that can happen to a man"-and demonstrated that he needs none. "I have always operated lean," said Ribicoff, talking economy. He wanted no lawyer on his staff either: "After all, that's what I am." He added modestly: "If possible, I would like to have an economist in my office." South Dakota. Joseph Jacob Foss, 39, who won the Medal of Honor as a Marine...
...least disposition to contradict the Geneva agreements." But Collins was not intending to violate Geneva: the U.S. had only 340 men in Indo-China, and these would operate the new training program with officers and noncoms from the 150,000-man French Expeditionary Corps; there would be no military buildup from outside...