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Overnight the presidential future books trembled: Nixon clearly stood with McClellan for a sterner labor bill in defense of rank-and-file rights; Kennedy lost face; Humphrey, in absentia, looked silly. And on close second look Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson, famous for his deft control of the Senate, looked like the man who had let it all happen. Wags whispered that his L.B.J. initials meant "Let's Block Jack...
...sterner warning came from longtime (1950-57) Atomic Energy Commissioner Thomas Murray. The real danger to the U.S. today, said Murray, is not all-out war, for which the U.S. already has big hydrogen weapons "beyond rational bounds," but a series of Red-started limited wars in which the Communists might inflict "a kind of piecemeal defeat." In such wars, said Murray, the U.S. would need "great numbers of tactical nuclear weapons of low-kiloton yield. Our security vitally depends on continued progress in perfecting the technology of small weapons, and this progress cannot be assured without tests." Beyond that...
...symbol of the soul of France and the unbreakable integrity of her spirit in adversity." Churchill said all this in English, recalling that in wartime he had often spoken to Frenchmen in their own language, but now did not "wish to subject you to the ordeal of darker and sterner days...
...Khrushchev will not only have to raid Soviet high schools for manpower but also command a Soviet working force of heroic sobriety. Rolling on to his native village of Kalinovka on the northern edge of the Ukraine, Nikita Khrushchev declared war on demon rum. "The government is now drafting sterner measures against this evil." he told the villagers. "In restaurants we shall establish this rule: if you order spirits, you will be served one shot, but a second shot will be prohibited. Some may say so what; if they don't serve us in this restaurant, we will...
Hardening Line The U.S. Government moved slowly in the presence of serious events last week toward a sterner position in the cold...