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...Kennedy visit also provided Nixon an opportunity to show that he hasn't lost his susceptibility to foot-in-mouth disease. By referring to the President and his family as "carpetbaggers," an attempt to appear a good Californian, Nixon probably offended many Democrats. Kennedy put Nixon in a bad spot for the second time in two days by making an ostentatiously friendly and respectful visit to General Eisenhower...
...Senate, by a 71-12 vote, confirmed Republican John A. McCone as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. McCone, a wealthy Californian with oil and shipping interests, was Under Secretary of the Air Force in the Truman Administration, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission under President Eisenhower. Though he won unanimous confirmation for those earlier posts, he ran into opposition this time on varied grounds. Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith argued that McCone has never done intelligence work. South Dakota's Republican Senator Francis Case worried about McCone's business interests: "Will his instincts...
...mislocated communities; by waste products; by cars and jeeps and cycles which pre-empt our very living and breathing space. Already, the state's nose is bloody. How long before its whole magnificent body is beaten to deformity? How long before the bright lands are dead lands?" Every Californian can cite his own pet example of the slurban blight. In San Francisco, the famed waterfront was threatened by a new elevated ramp until a group of aroused citizens forced the state to sus pend construction. In Sacramento, highway builders propose to split the city in two with a throughway...
...tomorrow!" With a bow to the honor guest at the head table, the "quarterback of the Hyannisport All-Stars," Hope quipped: "Listen, touch football is not a sissy sport. Up there in Hyannisport, roughing the passer is a federal rap." Finally he had some news of a fellow Californian: "Nixon couldn't be here-he's running for Governor. He'll campaign on radio...
Movie number one is the thriller. A young, destitute American has been commissioned by a wealthy Californian to lure his expatriate son Phillip away from Italy and Marge, a beautiful but suspect art student. Hating his sadistic charge and envious of his wealth, Tom murders him, disposes of his body and in a dangerous game of impersonation, seeks to substitute himself for his victim...