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...circle. Suddenly Biff discovered he was being watched by a suspicious man who introduced himself as Doctor Drugg. Drugg persuaded Bundie to walk with him to his office for a discussion of urgent matters, and Bundie, forgetting the book bag, left with him. When he realized his blunder he dashed back to the Bick to find that the book bag had been taken by "a little man with snow white hair." Meanwhile, in the midst of a fire in the Chem 20 lab at Mallinckrodt, a mutilated, decapitated body was discovered in a fire blanket cabinet...
...Rescued by a passing junk, the six youngsters were vouched for by a Hong Kong relative who would guarantee their support. But the police arrested the six for illegal entry, brusquely pushed them back across the border. The Hong Kong Tiger Standard blasted the government for an "appallingly inhumane blunder." The president of Formosa's Free China Relief Association called the action "tantamount to sentencing the youths to death.'' Over the Fence. It was not simply a case of bureaucratic heartlessness. Since the Communists seized China in 1949. Hong Kong has absorbed a million refugees. Because...
...Tragic Blunder. Many papers and columnists shared the Wall Street Journal's incredulous despair. "A warning to all Americans," editorialized the 86-year-old Nashville Banner, "that the day of Free Enterprise is drawing to a close. Khrushchev could be right when he said: 'Your grandchildren will live under Socialism...
...Worst Blunder." When White House pressure grew stronger, many businessmen became loudly critical of both Kennedy and Blough. A Los Angeles aerospace executive called the sudden raise "the worst blunder by the steel industry since the days when they called up strikebreakers to shoot at the workers." Said the head of a sugar company: "Maybe the steel people did need a price increase, but going about it in the way they did puts a plague on all our houses." The business community was plainly apprehensive of Kennedy's wrath. Said Willard F. Rockwell, chairman of Rockwell-Standard Corp. (axles...
...other visible qualifications," acidly suggested that relatives of "prominent officials" should "present some solid evidence of talent before they make the sacrifice of starting at the top." The Times's Washington Bureau Chief James Reston predicted that "this whole exercise may prove to be the first Kennedy political blunder in years. In politics, nothing fails like success after a while. One Kennedy is a triumph, two Kennedys at the same time are a miracle, but three could easily be regarded by many voters as an invasion...