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While Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, surveyed the war in Viet Nam last week (see THE WORLD), a storm was brewing in Washington over the handling of U.S. policy toward that strife-torn little country. It involved most of the Pentagon and an influential clique in the State Department...
...boycott of Christmas as a moral weapon is even more inappropriate. Those who have sympathized with the civil rights movement would be torn between their children and their convictions. Children themselves would hardly understand a cause which deprived them of their toys for the sake of Negro victims in a distant Southern city. The altruistic spirit of Christmas would be trod under by a confused and contrived attempt at creating support and wearing down opponents...
Great chunks of stone shot like artillery shells through parked cars. The blast shattered the windshield of a passing car, knocked the driver unconscious. A metal railing, torn from its concrete bed, lanced across the street into the window of the Social Dry Cleaning store. Next door, customers at the Silver Springs Restaurant were knocked to the floor. In nearby Kelly Ingram Park, pieces of brick nipped the leaves off trees 200 ft. from the blast...
Washington remained divided and confused by the situation in Saigon. In the face of conflicting reports from war-torn South Viet Nam-and for lack of any alternative-the Administration was inclined last week toward continued cooperation with the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem. "I am confident the answers will be found by the Vietnamese government and our aid will continue to be effective," said Secretary of State Dean Rusk, adding that he saw "no evil people in the woodwork...
...achieved. In his last testament, the famous Thoughts on Religion, he emerged as an eloquent defender of religious belief. Science, he declared, was mere presumption, and man could grope his way towards the truth only by renouncing the intellect and "placing his faith in feeling." And yet Pascal was torn. "I look on all sides," he wrote shortly before his death, "and everywhere I see nothing but uncertainty...