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...this point that we are not sure yet that we have all the documents in the Department of Agriculture pertinent to Billie Sol Estes." In his specific comments on the Estes case, Kamerick singled out Under Secretary Charles Murphy as the official who overruled a decision to cancel Billie Sol's 1961 cotton allotments-which had been obtained from farmers through land trans actions carried out in evident violation of a legal requirement of good faith. It was Murphy who also backed Estes' reappointment to the Cotton Advisory Committee despite adverse reports from Agriculture's office...
...irate Tribune reader named John Fitzgerald Kennedy served public notice that he no longer wanted the Trib-not even for free. Around the corner from the White House, at the Card and Gift Town Shop, Newsdealer Bernard Gorlen had already got the word. The White House called to cancel its subscription to the 23 daily and 13 Sunday Tribunes that Gorlen has been delivering since Inauguration Day. What was bothering the President, Gorlen wondered. For the rest of the week, all he had to do was to read the papers-any paper-to find...
...President was sore at the Trib, all right, said Salinger, but that had nothing to do with it: "If we were to cancel subscriptions to all the papers who were opposed to the Administration, it would be kind of light reading around here." Well then, he was asked, why did Kennedy blow his top? "I think the culmination came," Salinger went on, "with the disclosure that the Herald Tribune completely ignored the stockpiling investigation." He was referring to a leftover Eisenhower Administration scandal, in which a copper company got a $6,000,000 windfall. Salinger was wrong, argued Trib Reporter...
...jolly good bash" was Soviet Russia's Second International Tchaikovsky Competition, first to be held since 1958, when Louisiana-born Van Cliburn captured the prize-and Russia with it. The "gamble" for gifted young English Pianist John Ogdon, 25, was whether to go into hock and cancel several engagements in order to compete in Moscow. Last week, Ogdon won his gamble, and shared first place with veteran Soviet Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy...
Other pressures are being subtly applied. Rumors drift through the French press: that the government has threatened to cancel a handsome contract with the Louis Bregeut Aeronautical Works-which Floirat owns; that Monaco, which has a 5% stockholding in Europe Number One, has been urged to sell it to France. How long Europe Number One can endure the governmental siege is uncertain. But while it does, 14 million Frenchmen presumably will go on listening...