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Outwitted. The Senate, particularly, continues to scorch the Administration with criticism. Kentucky Republican Thruston Morton last week accused the Administration of "bland and probably inaccurate statements" about the war. By Morton's count, the number of antiwar Senators has grown from ten to 25 in the past year. One of that number is Illinois Republican Charles Percy, who is now asking a phased withdrawal of U.S. forces from Viet Nam, leaving the South Vietnamese government to survive or expire on its own. Ohio Democrat Stephen Young demanded that Westmoreland be replaced by "a more competent general" because...
Sophomore Steve Hinkle surprised everyone by placing third out of 40 entries in the 15-kilometer cross-country run. John Morton of Middlebury won the event easily, finishing more than four minutes ahead of the second place racer...
...clamor of opposition can hardly be avoided in a democracy. But if the President tries to satisfy everyone, he may end up using power so sparingly that he will satisfy no one. "The danger is," says University of Chicago Political Scientist Morton Kaplan, "that we will now hold back too much out of fear of another Viet...
Said Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston Morton: "We ought to pursue every possible diplomatic action to get it back, and if that doesn't work we'll have to go in there...
...suburban Philadelphia's Atlas Credit Corp., a mortgage-banking, title-insurance and home-repair finance concern. First, a plan to float $14 million worth of long-term debentures went awry in the 1966 credit squeeze. Then the merger partners, Atlas' John L. Wolgin and Sunset's Morton Sterling, locked horns over how to raise money for the ailing realty side of their operation. Recalls Rozet: "There were four children in the lifeboat, with food enough for three...