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...Administration's noisiest critic, Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse, tacked onto the money bill a prickly amendment proposing that the Senate show its disapprobation of Viet Nam policy by voting to cancel the August 1964 resolution, passed by Congress after the Gulf of Tonkin attacks, that then-and thereafter-authorized the President to take "all necessary measures" against aggression in Southeast Asia. Georgia's Russell countered with his own rider reaffirming the Tonkin resolution. Both were potentially troublesome...
Cass will certainly be worser for cash if he has to cancel a title bout with Ernie Terrell in Chicago on March 29. While Chicago promoters continued to push fight tickets, Clay hastily dispatched three lawyers to look into the possibilities of an appeal. Meanwhile, it occurred to the champ after all these years that he "might be a conscientious objector...
...student commented, "I'll probably have to cancel my trip to Europe this summer." Another said, "I'll probably quit school...
...Rhodesia. The refinery at Umtali, supplied by pipeline direct from the port of Beira in Portuguese Mozambique, had enough oil to supply the nation for ten weeks even if the pipeline was cut, and Smith last week airily advised Rhodesians that there was no need to cancel their holiday trips to save fuel. As New Year's Eve approached, in fact, the only thing rationed in Rhodesia was Scotch whisky...
Dictating letters to cancel out the rest of his 1965 appointments calendar, Dwight Eisenhower, 75, continued a steady recovery from the heart attack that struck during his golfing vacation at the Augusta National Golf Club. Out of the oxygen tent, Ike resumed a favorite hobby, painting, was wheeled out to the porch of his suite at the Fort Gordon, Ga., Army hospital and told reporters he was "fine, fine." At week's end, doctors arranged to move the patient on Monday to Washington's Walter Reed Hospital for convalescence...