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...isolated "hermit kingdom," as it was called by 19th century missionaries, is becoming a viable, if somewhat fragile, democracy and is reaching out toward the world with more self-assurance than it has ever known. To South Viet Nam it has sent 10,000 engineers and 46,000 battle-shrewd "ROK" (Republic of Korea) troops. Through the Asian Pacific Council, it plays a leading role in promoting regional cooperation. Next week President Park will receive a U.S. economic mission, and South Korea's Prime Minister II Kwon Chung will be in Washington discussing Korean and Viet Nam development with...
...Finally Governor John A. Volpe threatened to veto one scheme, charging that it favored Democratic congressional candidates. The leadership of the General Court rejected the other, claiming that it favored Republican candidates. Both the Governor and the legislature, however, agreed to approve a plan proposed by a delegation of shrewd, if self-seeking, congressmen. This plan, which the court of appeals just ruled illegal, apportioned Massachusetts so that one Republican and one Democratic congressmen were eliminated and that the re-election of the seven Democrats and five Republicans remaining was assured...
...Manchester's description of Vice President Johnson is sympathetic. His portrait of L.B.J. after the assassination is that of a man overwhelmed "While he had already succeeded to the office, he didn't realize it, and the slumped figure in the hospital bore little resemblance to the shrewd, assured President Johnson the country came to know." Kennedy's assistant press secretary Mac Kilduff, reported that on addressing Johnson as "Mr. President" for the first time, he "looked at me like I was Donald Duck." In the confusion Secret Service agents urged Johnson to take the J.F.K. presidential...
Chairman James S. McDonnell, 67, of St. Louis' McDonnell Co., builds some of the world's best airplanes, and has become even better known by making NASA's Mercury and Gemini space capsules. He is also a shrewd and determined bargainer, and he has long had his eye on the Douglas Aircraft Co. He tried a takeover in 1963, only to be rebuffed by Donald Douglas Sr., now 74, an old friend who helped McDonnell get started 28 years ago with orders for DC-3 parts. Last year McDonnell began buying Douglas stock again, and last week...
Died. Albert Monroe Greenfield, 79, head of City Stores Co. (Manhattan's W. & J. Sloane and 131 other stores in 19 states) from 1932 until his retirement in 1959, a shrewd Ukrainian-born entrepreneur who added another star to the galaxy of U.S. success stories by building a real estate (largely in Philadelphia) and retailing business that today grosses $850 million annually and provided him with a fortune estimated at close to $100 million; of cancer; in Philadelphia...