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Still, the snatches of backstair gossip are flying--the same sort of rumors that credited Bowles with being one of the few White House advisers who was right about the Cuban invasion fiasco. Certainly the circumstances under which Bowles left are suspicious enough to arouse the concern of all who admire this gifted man. One would have expected, for example, his new position to be announced simultaneously with the news that he was quitting as Under Secretary of State. Instead, a day passed, and Bowles spent an hour with Kennedy before his new job was named. President Kennedy...
...Government but ..." and he trailed off into ambiguous remarks. The bell for division (voting), which rings three times, rang once, twice, and M. P.'s began to trickle into the division lobbies. At this moment, barely ahead of the third bell, up sneaked some 140 Conservatives by a backstair's route to vote...
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