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...President's request came just one week after a significant shake-up in U.S. civil defense plans. Under a reorganization pushed by the President and reluctantly accepted by Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization Director Frank B. Ellis, most planning and preparation was transferred from OCDM to the Pentagon. Ellis remains a presidential adviser, will supervise strategic stockpiling and minor civil defense preparations. Defense Secretary McNamara assumes the major responsibility for helping U.S. citizens survive a nuclear attack...
...carry the strengthened Army to the fighting front, the Navy will shake the mothballs out of some 20 transport ships and amphibious vessels, increase its sea-lift capacity from 1½% divisions to 2 divisions at a time. To make sure the troopships get safely to their destination, the Navy is strengthening its anti-submarine-warfare forces by adding one aircraft carrier, putting an undisclosed number of sub-killing submarines back in service, ordering to active duty some ASW reserve squadrons, and retaining a dozen destroyers that were scheduled for retirement. In addition, the Navy will keep on duty...
Korean women were advised not to wear jewelry, to "shun housemaids" and do their own housework, and to help "enlighten the public on the need for contraceptives." Korean men got the word to "refrain from exchanging vain tokens," to "avoid haggling over prices," and "to shake off the idea of making 'quick money.' " Both men and women were urged to greet each other each morning with the words "Let's reconstruct!" (foreign residents, including U.S. troops, "will also be encouraged to exchange this greeting"). To keep Koreans on their toes, there will be daily "reconstruction calisthenics...
...that was needed was to get the politicians to shake hands and forget the past. Simple as it sounded, this seemed to be more than the Congo's quarreling politicians could manage...
Tooling along a street in Karachi last May on his Asian whistle-stop tour, Vice President Lyndon Johnson spied one of Pakistan's prime tourist attractions: a camel cart. Lyndon stopped the car, got out to shake hands with startled Camel Driver Ahmad Bashir, 40. While the photographers snapped away, Johnson made small talk. "President Ayub Khan is coming to the U.S.," he offered. "Why don't you come too?" Bashir agreeably smiled "Sure, sure," went home to his mud-and-gunny-sack shack and forgot...