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...mother, who tries to purge him of lechery through prayer, threats, and maternal tantrums. David's sin is diagnosed by a saintly monk as a "fear of fear." In the end, what finishes David is what eventually brings down most Don Juans-the cumulative weight of complication, subterfuge, blackmail, lies and disorder that results from a lifelong dalliance with too many women, and loyalty to none...
...Herald Trib did not agree. In a footnote printed below the column, the paper took angry exception to Crosby's "loosely-considered notion that surrender is the only alternative to nuclear blackmail...
...Last week, in a departure from his past policy, President Kennedy publicly warned that U.S. foreign aid in the future would go primarily to those countries whose thinking comports with that of the U.S.-and whose professed neutralism is not merely a disguise for pro-Soviet feelings and dollar-blackmail...
...Thursday ranking officials arrived at the White House-Rusk. Dulles, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, AEC Chairman Glenn Seaborg, Cold War Adviser Maxwell Taylor, U.S. Information Agency Chief Edward R. Murrow. At 12:45 p.m., Kennedy issued a second statement calling the Soviet announcement "atomic blackmail." Declared the President: "What the Soviet Union is obviously testing is not only nuclear devices but the will and determination of the free world to resist such tactics and to defend freedom.'' The President stated he was confident that the present U.S. nuclear stockpile was capable of defending the free world, once again...
...Blackmail & Terror." The U.S. Sen ate convened in a mood of icy anger. California Republican Thomas Kuchel accused Khrushchev of "sham and hypocrisy." Cried Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington: "It has never been clear to me why we should take for granted the fact the Soviets ever stopped testing. Why should we assume they are not testing? . . . Our Allies are watching what we do, not what we say." Backed by a dozen other Senators,* Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd introduced a resolution calling for the U.S. to resume nuclear tests immediately. Stopping the tests in 1958, said Dodd, "was the most fatuous...