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Under both Eisenhower and Kennedy, Thompson's toughest, longest job has been protecting, without a misstep, the allied position in beleaguered West Berlin. Ever since November 1958, when Khrushchev issued his first ultimatum ordering Western troops to quit the city. Thompson spent endless hours explaining that-despite Kennedy's willingness to offer some concessions-the West would not be bargained or bullied out of Berlin...
Thus, every day of the working week, begins Don McNeill's radio Breakfast Club, the longest running series in the history of broadcasting. This summer it begins its 30th straight year...
Bird Man of Alcatraz. During a span of 43 years, Robert F. Stroud became a renowned authority on the diseases of birds, and produced an exhaustive book on the subject. He also wrote a mammoth study of the federal penal system. He did both while serving the longest term in solitary confinement in U.S. prison history at Leavenworth and Alcatraz, as the convicted murderer...
...luncheon companion and asked sourly: "Who's Kohler?" Sokolov knew perfectly well, since Foy David Kohler, 54, just named by President Kennedy to replace Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr. as Ambassador to the Soviet Union, has been at the center of East-West negotiations over Berlin-probably the knottiest, longest-standing tangle in the cold war. But if the Russian was simply expressing predictable skepticism, quite a few Americans were asking the same question about the man who is about to take over the U.S.'s most important diplomatic post abroad...
...more or less since Director Darryl Zanuck drew widespread attention to his own invasion of Normandy, The Longest Day, by using troops from crisis-ridden Berlin (TIME, Sept. 8), the Pentagon has been a house divided. Its low-ranking flacks and Hollywood liaison men are for giving Hollywood what it wants at all times-tanks, planes, ammunition, West Point, Annapolis, nuclear warheads, classified information, bases overseas. But the Pentagon's Audio-Visual Division of the Directorate for News Services of the Public Affairs Division disagrees. It is now concerned about criticism from Congress, the source from which all that...