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...success of its predecessors. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, 64, during two tours and 29 months of duty in Saigon, has jjj overseen the wrenching political transition from Ngo Dinh Diem to Nguyen Cao Ky with rare aplomb. Lodge's deputy, William J. Porter, 52, took a scant 18 months to turn "rural pacification" from a Utopian dream to a viable program. But if the departing officials set a fast pace, the new team that Lyndon Johnson presented last week gives every promise of being able not only to keep it up but to improve...
...scant fraction of the agency's 15,000-odd employees actually go out into the cold. At Langley's elaborate seventh-floor operations center, a bank of high-speed (100 words per minute) printers receive top-secret traffic from the National Security Agency, diplomatic reports from embassies overseas, information from the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, as well as data from CIA men around the world. In Helms's office, there are "secure" red, grey, blue or white direct-line phones with scramblers attached-on which the President often calls...
...difference was in the timing of the open-housing section. Recognizing that a period of education may be necessary to prepare the public for a total end to discrimination in housing, Johnson asked that discrimination in sales and rentals be banned in phases over the next two years. A scant 4% of the nation's dwellings, which are federally financed and already under various federal anti-discrimination regulations, would be covered by the act this year. Forty percent more, mostly big apartment houses and new suburban developments, would be added next year, and the remaining 56%, including single-family...
...vote underscored the importance of a stable Japan in the future of Asia, and pointed a path of sanity and soundness that runs in calm contrast to the instability that has characterized the 18 years of Communist China's post-revolutionary history. After all, it is a scant quarter-century since Japan itself went wild and sent its aggression spilling across the Pacific from Singapore to Pearl Harbor. That adventure cost Japan 1½ million lives and taught a proud nation the humbling lesson of pragmatism...
...added sulforme-thoxine in an "SPQ" combination. Then they dropped the quinine and dosed malarial G.I.s with a combination of the new sulfa and pyrimethamine. Result: The new drug not only cures patients faster and kills parasites in the blood, but reduces the relapse percentage from 40% to a scant...