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...illegal war, and seize foreign territories. One hears that it is the prestige of the U.S. that allegedly prevents it from renouncing this war and withdrawing from Viet Nam. But after several years of conducting this inhuman war, can your country say that its prestige has risen one inch? From this war you have gained absolutely nothing, and in the eyes of public opinion you have lost very much. Absolutely nobody can say a good-word about this dirty war-except a group of persons waxing rich on it. History will never forgive the U.S., and those responsible...
...plan was to lower a "golden jewel box" to the moon's surface, dig an 18-inch hole with the spacecraft's mechanical arm and claw, then use the arm to put the jewel box in the hole. By bombarding the claw-dug moon material with alpha particles and measuring the speed and number of the rebounding particles, the 8-in.-sq. box could identify the chemical composition of substances beneath the moon's surface. Contamination by material from other parts of the moon and from meteorites would be avoided...
...next speaker was Crane. "Don't turn a 16-inch gun on a canoe and don't get in the gutter because you know what happens," he said. "Suffice it to say that I am not a back room boss...if anyone wants to knock me out of the Cambridge public life they can do it every two years...
Cambridge pulled on its longjohns yesterday as the coldest temperatures in memory put the weekend's eight and a half-inch snowstorm...
Falling Sparrows. Unlike Ike, who set up military lines of command and delegated considerable responsibility, Johnson wants to be in on everything. His night reading, often a five-inch-thick stack of memos and cables, covers everything from the latest CIA intelligence roundup to a gossipy report on a feud between two Senators. Not a sparrow falls, says a former aide, that he doesn't know about...