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...There were impressive arguments against it, most notably the likelihood that a Security Council debate might simply become a forum for anti-American tirades and might also force a hardening of the Soviet position. But a renewed appeal for U.N. "arbitration" from Pope Paul VI, coinciding with a cogent memo from Rusk and U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg, persuaded the President to try. "It's a slim chance," said a U.S. official, "but one worth probing." Just how slim a chance was demonstrated when the U.S. managed to get its resolution requesting the U.N. to arrange a peace conference...
...remote and quiet Lyndon Johnson sat last week in his oval office watching for signs of peace. Beside his desk stood two news tickers. Every wire-service story that clattered in was scrutinized by the President for the slightest hint of response. Every phone call from Dean Rusk, every memo from the still-voyaging Harriman was eagerly accepted. Of the President's desire for peace there could be no doubt. Nor of the stakes, should the present all-out effort to get to the conference table fail. By any measure, Johnson had engaged the power and prestige...
...subtle merits and elusive memo ries of Francis Xavier Morrissey, 55, were scrutinized for nine hours by Senate Judiciary Committee members, who then approved President Johnson's nominee for the $30,000-a-year lifetime judgeship (TIME, Oct. 8). There were, of course, turgid testimonials arranged by Morrissey's backers. Anticipating opposition in Senate subcommittee hearings, they put on ten witnesses and adduced an encomium from Richard Cardinal Gushing, who in 1956 christened Morrissey's tenth baby, Richard Gushing, in the first such ceremony ever televised...
...idea how good he was to become when, as an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Cincinnati, he was spotted playing on a sandlot team. In 1954, Sandy signed a Dodger contract for $6,000 plus a $14,000 bonus. Scout Al Campanis wrote in his memo to Dodger Owner Walter O'Malley: "No. 1, he's a Brooklyn boy. No. 2, he's Jewish." The Dodgers' move to Los Angeles was still four years away. In the meantime, says General Manager Buzzie Bavasi, "there were many people of the Jewish faith in Brooklyn...
...Policy Planning Council, "that people in the State Department look forward to reading them, and pass their cables around. As you would expect, their reports get action commensurate with the attention they get." Attwood, a longtime professional journalist, was recently asked to write, for distribution within the department, a memo on how to write. "The best incentive for drafting a readable report," it said, "is to assume that your readers are not terribly interested in what you have to say, and that you have to tell your story in such a way that they won't be inclined...