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...Lasky is often correct on the well-known major sins of past Presidents, he indiscriminately elevates every questionable act, no matter how trivial, to an impeachable offense. Thus Lasky portrays Kennedy's impulsive decision to cancel White House subscriptions to the New York Herald Tribune, which has since ceased publication, as a serious presidential assault on the press. He rates in the same category L.B.J.'s use of Lawyer Clark Clifford, who pleaded with a few newspaper editors not to report Walter Jenkins' arrest for homosexual acts (Clifford asked that Jenkins be allowed quietly to quit...
...piloted on a CIA mission was shot down inside the Soviet Union; in a helicopter crash while on a reporting assignment for KNBC-TV, Los Angeles; in Encino, Calif. His capture, along with that of his photographic and electronic surveillance equipment, caused Nikita Khrushchev to cancel a summit conference with President Eisenhower. Tried publicly in Moscow, Powers was sentenced to ten years imprisonment for espionage, then released in 1962 in exchange for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel...
...breakaway splinter group called the Martin Luther King Jr. Movement Coalition obtained a parade permit for the area three weeks ago, forcing police to call up a 750-man protective patrol. When blacks showed up to march, however, police claimed a coalition leader had called and canceled the event the night before, prompting them to cancel the reinforcement call. Some blacks attempted to march anyway, but two leaders were quickly arrested and the march halted. Even so, angry white mobs went on a rampage. Perhaps hoping that tempers might cool with a change in the weather, the city then stated...
Though his interests might well cancel each other out, Lance put himself in a questionable spotlight when he spoke out on interest rates...
...Show. Not to the Soviet censors. They called it an "anti-Soviet caricature-irrelevant, immature and politically illiterate," and said it could not be displayed. Very well, said Glazunov, cancel the show. Unblushing, the head of the Soviet Artists Union wrote the next day in Pravda that "for us, there are no forbidden themes and genres...