Saturday Evening Post June 20, 1964 Bikini Swimsuits Sidney Poitier Missiles.

JUNE 20, 1964 237th YEAR, ISSUE NO, 24

POST

Articles

Caroline Bird

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More people should be servants (Speaking Out)

Stewart Alsop 10

Vietnam: Go north? (Affairs of State)

James Atwater 13

Last stand of the big bomber .

Should the United States build a new strateglc bomber now that responsibllity

for the nation's vital air defense has been given over to Intercontinental ballistic

missiles? Congress and the Air Force chlefs say yes: Secretary of Defense

Robert McNamara says, emphatically, no. A Post contributing writer examines

both sides of one of the hottest controversies raglng in Washington today.

Bikinis in the backyard .

Photographs by Lawrence J. Schiller 18

Normand Poirier 26

Sidney Poitier's long journey

. Max Gunther 34

crackin the grœn-ups' cœd

Robert B. Berry 62

He hunts with the wild falcon .

The bail-bond scandal .

Don Oberdorfer 66

. Bil Gilbert 68

The vanishing knave of clubs

Richard Armstrong 73

Viva el candidato!

Fiction

. Eugene Burdick 36

The 480 (Part 2 of 3)

Departments

4

Letters

60

Post scripts

70

Hazel .

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Editorial .

The authors. Contributing writer James At-

water, who last month reported on the fantastic

but controversial A-11 plane, spent long hours on

Capitol Hill and at the Pentagon studying the argu-

ments for and against a new manned bomber. He

once interviewed House Armed Services Commit-

tee chairman Carl Vinson while walking along a

corridor of the House Office Building at 7:30 in the

morning... . Another Post contributing writer, Don

Oberdorfer, spent 14 days in and around prison

cells, a lot more time than many of the prisoners

he interviewed, to learn about their difficulties in

securing bail bonds. . . . Twenty-eight-year-old

Robert B. Berry, an insurance salesman, placed

second in a national falconry contest held in South

Dakota last fall by the North American Falconers'

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Association.... Free-lancer Bil Gilbert, who recalls

some of his boyhood caddying experiences, is an

amateur naturalist; last summer he taught survival

training to a group of Peace Corps volunteers at

Georgetown University... . For the picture article

on bathing suits, Post women's editor Jeanette

Sarkisian looked over some 300 swimsuits and 75

California pools, but in two weeks of filming she

did not have time to put on her own swimsuit;

however, she did get into the water once-fully

clothed-to double-check an underwater shot.

The cover, Model Anitra Ford shows off her

two-piece daisy swimsuit in fire pink (Par-Form,

$15) for contributing photographer Lawrence J.

Schiller at a backyard pool in Palm Springs, Calif.