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Sometimes he also calls in Under Secretary of State George Ball, or General Earle Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, or the head of the Central Intelligence Agency. And he relies on Dwight Eisenhower for occasional military counsel, has recently been telephoning him once a week. Ike approves of Lyndon's course in Viet Nam, has told him: "There will come a time when everything will be just right-there will be an opening, and you can sit down and negotiate. It happened in Korea. I was lucky. But you must hang on until that time comes...
...Friday she will be honored by her Law School supporters who will crown her "Miss Instant Pudding" at a dinner in the Wheeler Room of the Law School...
...everyone else in the row must file out to the aisle to seat them; the Hotel Bostonian Theatre is so small that even the mice are humpbacked. In its limiting surroundings the set design and blocking of these two plays is a technical achievement. But, more important, David Wheeler's direction and the uniformly good acting make both plays effective...
...very dangerous situation," but only asked that two men be assigned full time to combatting it. Trodden amended the order to increase the number to five and asked that these men be sent away to school for special training. The order passed 3-1 with Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler the only dissenting vote...
Then, in 1961, bowing to the intense nationalistic pressures stirred up by President Jánio Quadros, Pan American sold its 30% controlling interest to Brazilian investors. The new owners, notably Mário Simonsen, a wheeler-dealer who made a fortune speculating in coffee, quickly put Panair into a financial nose dive. To win friends and influence politicians on other business deals, Simonsen started handing out so many free tickets that on overseas runs as many as 40% of Panair's passengers were flying now and paying never...