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...Senator Is Born. His profession was forecast on the very day that he was born in a little frame house among the pecan and sycamore trees on the banks of the Pedernales River near Stonewall, Texas. On that momentous occasion his grandfather, Sam Ealy Johnson, an old Indian fighter and cattleman, raced around on horseback announcing to everyone within range of his roar: "A United States Senator's been born to day." Lyndon inherited his interest in politics; both his grandfather and father were members of the Texas legislature...
Leading the gain will be Italy (5.5%) and France (4.5%); lagging will be West Germany (3%) and the Benelux countries (3.5%). Eurocrats blamed last winter's brutal weather for a slowdown early in the year but forecast a 6% jump in industrial production during 1963's fourth quarter...
...German textile firms are also building factories there, with a total investment of $51 million. West Berlin's Deutsche Industrie Bank has announced that its loans for industry have been running at twice the rate of last year. The city's total output for 1963 is forecast at $3.6 billion...
...departure day, the troops shook the mothballs out of their heavy winter uniforms and put them on. It was 80° in Texas, but temperatures in the 40s were forecast for Germany. Otherwise, the soldiers traveled light, toting 30-lb. field packs with pup tents and a single change of underwear and socks inside, M-14 automatic rifles, bayonets, gas masks and helmets...
...time has now come when we should start removing some of those troops," declared Ike in a Saturday Evening Post article. "One American division in Europe can 'show the flag' as definitely as several." Next came a speech by U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Roswell Gilpatric, who forecast a "new phase" in American troop commitments abroad and "useful reductions in overseas military expenditures...