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...sobering aftermath of the calamitous Cuban invasion, it was no consolation for Jack Kennedy to hear nagging reminders from U.S. liberals that Chester Bowles, his Under Secretary of State, had opposed the plan all along. The very fact that the whole country seemed to have been told about Bowles's stand was especially annoying. The more he thought about it, the more reasons the President found for wanting to shift Bowles far from the Washington scene...
...rest of the week, ostensibly to prepare for his trip. But he was still sore, and he was still mounting a publicity campaign to keep his job. At week's end it was clear that by turning his survival into a battle that rocked the State Department, Chester Bowles had destroyed his own usefulness and ensured his eventual removal...
...which had had a front-page seat at the fight, could only wonder why Jack Kennedy had not chopped Chester Bowles down with one purposeful command, rather than set up an unseemly spectacle as he tried to coax the amiable big-thinker into quitting...
Zealous and convincing, he perched at the hospital bedside of ailing (from hepatitis) Food for Peace Director George McGovern, made his case to Secretary of State Rusk, Under Secretary Chester Bowles, Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs Robert Woodward, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman...
...lineage was the best: his sire was the prolific Adios, whose offspring have earned $6,868,930 during the last five seasons; his dam was Debby Hanover, sired by Billy Direct. But Adios Butler was small and unimpressive-looking, and his owner, Horse Breeder Russel Carpenter, mayor of Chester, N.Y., figured he was a loser. Carpenter persuaded Paige West, a lean horse breeder and sulky driver from Snow Hill, Md., to try to bid the price up to $7,500. West opened the bidding at $6,000, was amazed when nobody challenged him. "I had bet Mr. Carpenter...