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...Washington last week reamed scores of U.S. Congressmen, some bent on fishing and swimming, most with a different objective. Faning out toward Bangor and Balboa, International Falls and Corpus Christi, they were hoping to find out what was on their constituents' minds and sniff the air back home during a ten-day recess that ends this week. At Fourth of July parades and picnics, at backyard barbecues and Little League ball games, the Congressmen spent long hours talking-and listening. What they discovered was a pleasant summertime surface, and beneath it some serious anxieties...
...going up in such outposts as Salmon Arm, British Columbia, and Hay River in the Northwest Territories. A Confederation Train loaded with exhibits of Canadiana has drawn S.R.O. crowds at every whistlestop. Recently, a chorus of touring Eskimos gave their rendition of 18th century German chorales. Everywhere Canadians seem bent on shattering what Prime Minister Lester Pearson recently described as "the Anglo-Saxon crust, the old grey Canadian tradition...
Objections Flying. In addition to all his other troubles, Dodd was burdened by the unsolicited advocacy of Louisiana's Russell Long, the only Senator who openly championed his cause. Huey's son whooped and wambled through the debate, arms waving and objections flying, as if bent on infuriating the rest of the Senate. In a rambling six-hour diatribe that approached filibuster proportions and reduced attendance on the floor from more than 70 to 13, Long invoked his father, Uncle Earl, Daniel Webster, Christ and John F. Kennedy, along with a number of others. He capped the week...
...Nitze's prickly personality, his academic bent, and his penchant for discussing far-out security and disarmament theories made him enough enemies over the years to deny him still higher office. He faced firm, if unofficial, opposition from a handful of conservative Republican Senators when the Eisenhower Administration proposed to nominate him to a high Defense Department post, and he withdrew from Government. Later, he was prominently mentioned as a candidate for a number of top-level jobs, but settled in 1963 for the relatively prosaic appointment as Secretary of the Navy, the post he has held ever since...
Through the dawn and early morning hours, Lyndon Johnson pored over cables on the Arab-Israeli war in his White House bedroom. After two weeks in which the President had bent every effort to avert hostilities, the overwhelming peril was that the U.S. and Russia would now be sucked into a direct confrontation that neither superpower wanted. Around 8 a.m., Monday, the President's bedside phone brought some electrifying and potentially ominous news. Walt W. Rostow, the President's national security adviser, was calling to report that the "hot line" was being activated from Moscow...