European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 09, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Cut lord leave detail to aides by Fred s. Hoffman Washington a Clark m Clfford s first months of defense Jiava of maning big picture Jcu 11 _1who concentrates on Watt president Johnson and Dele most Day to Day Pentagon the forging of new Vietnam Neace initiatives and a reassess ment of the . And South Viet namese military position after the communist Winter offensive Hove accounted for some of  associates believe this is the Way Clifford will operate throughout his tenure which May not last beyond next Janu Ary now that Johnson has taken himself out of the presidential race. Clifford a slow spoken Law yer has imprinted his own de chief studies the big picture liberate style on the Topmost Post in the Pentagon. But so far at least he has made no discernible changes in major defense policies inherited from the seven year regime of Robert s. Mcnamara. All of the top Mcnamara Era officials still Are with Clifford and there Are indications that most of them will remain a least through this year. Those who have watched Clif Ford close up since March 1 say he concerns himself with broader  sees the problem from the top Down leaving de tails to his subordinates an associate said. This Means the heavy Parton the Day to Day Load Falls on Paul  was a reference to dept Busy heart team with his surgical team gathered about him or. Denton Cooley second from right in left photo tells of the second heart transplant per formed by the team within 72 hours. The recipient was James Cobb 48, a Salesman of Alexandria la. Cobb s wife and son James jr., meet newsmen right photo at St. Luke s Hospital in Houston. A social disease called out of control in . Washington a Gonor Rhea is out of control in the United states the director of to National communicable disease Tenter . David a Scencer the director told a House appropriations subcommittee 1 would y i is l out of control. There been been a 12 per cent increase in reported each gonorrhoea you can say it is increasing and increasing dangerously Sencer said his Agency asked of a crease of $1.7 million in Duj ads for fighting us dal disease but that the budget Down the Notts but our a u Topaz headed for screen Hitchcock to have go at spy scandal new York up Alfred Hitchcock announced wednesday that his next motion picture his first in several years will be based on the recently revealed French scandal which he de scribed As the spy Story of the  film will be Topaz adapted from the Best Selling novel by Leon Uris who also will write the  said the motion Pic Ture will be filmed As much a possible on the locations where the action occurred Copen Hagen Washington Paris and  has been described As the spy Story of the Century Hitchcock said. I Don t know whether we can make the film of the Century but Well have a go at  when asked whether he though the film would be banned in France Hitchcock said you Llave to ask the  in response to another ques Tion he said no arrangements have yet been made for location filming in  said no casting arrangements have been made forthe film which probably will go before the cameras in septem Ber. To Secretary of defense Nitze who himself reportedly had aspirations to succeed Mcnamara when Mcnamara moved on to become president of the world Bank. On significant policy questions it is understood Nitz moves Only after discussing the issues with  official said c 1 i f f o r d is Likely to function chiefly As policy adviser to the president More in the manner of Secre tary of state Dean Rusk than in the fashion of Mcnamara who insisted on getting into nuts and bolts specifics of the de sense establishment. Clifford s been spending Large part of his time with the president and on the phone tothe White House said an As  s also bin putting in time on Capitol Hill smoothing relations with  one of Mcnamara s chief weaknesses acknowledged even by his admirers was his apparent inability to cozy up to con Gress. His presentations were brusque and formal and he rarely bothered to make an personal visits to influential senators and representatives. Mending fences in a very real sense Cliffor has been mending fences which fell into neglect and cause Mcnamara rising troubles with  Are evidences of Clif Ford s Success even at this relatively Early stage in his tenure. Chairman l. Mendel Rivers,d-s.c., of the House armed services committee last week demonstrated the new Era of Good feeling when he told Clif Ford at a hearing that he has a Hunch that we As a committee and you As Secretary of defense Are going to get along very  when Mcnamara last fall made known his intention to leave some of the Vietnam War critics who formerly had worked him Over suddenly Pic tured him As a kind of dutch b o a with his Finger in the Dike restraining influence against All out  were predictions that Clifford s Advent As Secretary of defense signalled a big St Pup inthe War. But the great escalation pre the Storvis Loop la based on Oul uie great is a Iaun pie e Rev nations of Philippe the diced b some War policy critics Reye Iamb or Ruppe in. Him in fat Tho mayor oot Board and broke a leg civic Kamarga a. A mayor Frank Pierce has been hospitalized after an Accident in the driveway of his Home i which he suffered a broken leg. As the 44-year-old mayor told it he was zipping along just Fine on a skateboard when All of sudden i landed on the driveway with my legs twisted under  the Raud Devosjoli a former chief of French intelligence in the United states. De to Swolfs Story covered extensively in the ,and British press in recent weeks concerns the revelation of a soviet defector who said among other things that Russia had succeeded in planting an agent in the highest councils of French resident Charles de Gaulle s , who was present at the news conference said he Hasmet Devosjoli but refused to say to what extent his Story i based on what Devosjoli told him. Has not come about in fact the first Steps toward peace have been taken and Clifford is credited with a major role in Shap ing the  new Secretary knows How to use personal Charm and has impressed some Pentagon news men with his apparent Frank , a close Reading of Clifford s remarks at new conferences and other sessions with reporters shows that he tells basically Little More than Mcnamara  s Only that he seems to be More direct and candid. Ban is figuratively ruled out Oakland Calif. Up a Superior court judge has ordered the state to lift its ban on a patented bust Developer until it can prove the bosom builder does t the specific evidence presented Fere has Oil been in one direction said judge Spurgeon Avakyan after 25 women wit Nesses testified the device increased their  Mark Eden device looks like two joined and partially opened hand sized Clam shells connected with a High tension Spring. Instructions Are to press the together with the hands in certain positions five minutes in the morning five at night. The exercise is supposed to help enlarge the bust James Bell chief of the state Bureau of food and drug inspection quarantine the product last March. Eileen Feather a health Salon operator and her husband Jack brought a civil suit against the state. Judge Avakian made his ruling after three Days of  clinching testimony came from or. Henry Ralston a University of Californi medical Center research physiologist who used five Feather Salon employees and his wife for tests it was obvious to me said Ralston that All the five girls and my wife were Bustier when the tests were