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...circulated in the Pentagon; but it seemed to be a matter of interpretation of what was significant. He was shaken by the hue and cry that erupted last week when word of the cable's existence leaked from the Pentagon to the New York Herald Tribune. Said West Pointer Hilsman: "We've never tried to pull strings on puppets or go for a coup d'etat. The U.S. can't do this. If we ever pulled it, the Communists, who charge the Vietnamese with being puppets of the U.S., would be proved right and we would...
Died. Brigadier General Frank Purdy Lahm, 85, one of the U.S. Army's earliest birdmen, a West Pointer who took lessons from Wilbur Wright and in 1909 soloed the Army's first plane, went on to train many top airmen as first commander of the Air Corps' pioneer flying school at Randolph Field, Texas-over which his ashes will be scattered from a plane; of a stroke; in Sandusky, Ohio...
...reasons that this country needs federal aid to education are not so abstruse or arcane that they cannot be explained to the American people. Indeed, in a nationally televised speech the President might effectively put to use the blackboard-and-pointer method he has employed in the past. Certainly it ought to be easy enough to show, with appropriate graphs and models, the millions of students in over-crowded classrooms, the expected doubling of college enrollments by 1970, the fourfold difference in per capita expenditures on education between some states, and the continued inadequate level of teachers' salaries in many...
...hours over national TV, John Hughes, special assistant to the chief of the Defense Department's intelligence service, used a photographic memory and a wandlike pointer to explain blowups of more than 65 aerial pictures daringly taken over Cuba since last August. As flashed onto a 20-ft.-wide screen the photographs, some of them in color, told an intensely dramatic story...
...fire. "When those poor Vietnamese came out of the choppers, it was like shooting ducks for the Viet Cong," said one U.S. officer. The stunned survivors burrowed into the slimy mud of the paddies and stayed there, refusing to continue the assault. Desperately, Captain Kenneth Good, 32, a West Pointer from Ewa Beach, Hawaii, sought to rally the Vietnamese for a counterattack, but he was stitched through the neck and chest by a burst from a Viet Cong automatic rifle. The government troops stayed...