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...Kansas' outgoing Republican Governor John Anderson, who did not stand for reelection. "It lost in every state. In the South, prejudice voted, not his philosophy, and in Arizona they voted hometown. These Goldwater people have got to roll over. They're beaten." Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, a former Republican National Committee chairman who paid loyal lip service to Barry during the presidential campaign, said that if the Goldwaterites don't get out of the way, "there probably will be some blood spattered around." Avoiding Labels. Barry Goldwater did not appear to be at all anxious...
China's first operational nuclear force will probably have a limited range. Morton H. Halperin, assistant professor of Government, estimated that within three or four years the Chinese "will probably develop bombs compact enough to put in the few bombers they have...
...wanted Jimmy's friends to know where he was. The letter began: "Dear Mom and Dad: In case you haven't heard the names of those destroyers that were attacked in the Tonkin Gulf last Friday night, they were the R. S. Edwards and the Morton. Yep, we were there, all right...
...account of the mysterious Sept. 18th destroyer action in the Tonkin Gulf. Wrote young Kress: "We picked up about seven contacts on the radar screen. The Edwards blew two of them out of the water for certain and shot up another one. I don't know if the Morton destroyed any or not. One of them boats like to got us. It was trying to sneak up on our rear end and almost succeeded. It came to within 2,000 yards before we blew...
...Defense Department also refused to reveal the names of the destroyers on the claim that they carried highly secret electronic snooping gear. But after Jimmy Kress's letter, the Pentagon grudgingly confirmed that the destroyers were, in fact, the Morton and the Richard S. Edwards. After all, how can you stay mum when Mom out there in Dubuque wants the folks to know where...