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What then? Because of his increasing activities in foreign affairs. Washington is alive with rumors that Bobby is tiring of the Department of Justice, might want to move over to State. But President Kennedy, even while encouraging Bobby's global interests, is blunt about saying that he has no intention of moving his brother out of Justice; he likes Bobby right where he is. and hopes to keep him there for the next seven years...
...main message was delivered over closed-circuit television linking G.O.P. dinners in 50 cities, and it was something of a switch. During his eight years as President, he frequently had been criticized for relying almost exclusively on his personal appeal, at the expense of party organization. Now his blunt advice to Republicans was: Get to work on organization...
...will be NBC's turn, and after that ABC. Then the FCC, which has already collected some 10,000 pages of testimony in its various hearings, will produce a written report to the Administration with proposals for legislation. Beneath all of the politeness at the hearings, the blunt issue is government regulation of network practices...
...Isidro airbase, Hill delivered his blunt message to the general. The U.S. would not recognize his puppet junta. The U.S. would provide no Alliance for Progress help. The U.S. would close down its training program for Dominican military officers. The U.S. would cancel $55 million worth of sugar-quota imports...
Shades of Ben. The three professors plenipotentiary have written 25 books among them, are unabashed intellectuals in countries that respect scholars or ideologists. Outwardly, they are as dissimilar as their specialties. Trim (5 ft. 11¼ in., 155 Ibs.), athletic George Kennan is blunt, analytical, professional, and a deeply moral man who agonizes over the increasingly "sterile" clash of East and West. Towering (6 ft. 8 in.) Ken Galbraith is a vastly engaging, vastly self-assured pragmatist; given to heavily ironic wisecracks, he likes to be taken for an ogre, and in diplomacy, he claims, he has had to make...