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...cloture across. Dirksen is in a tough spot. Though he was his old, congenial self last week, traipsing up to the press galleries and sitting crosslegged on a table to chat with newsmen, he is under heavy fire from civil rights groups, which have threatened to mount dem onstrations in Illinois if he does not back the bill all the way. But such efforts may backfire. "If the day ever comes," says Dirksen, "when under pressure, or as a result of picketing or other devices, I shall be pushed from the rock where I must stand to render an independent...
...highway on a pickup truck; Tall, gaunt, stooped, tobacco chewing, strawhatted farmers--black and white. Neat brick middle-class American homes...Troopers and policemen everywhere, fat comic opera sherrifs in stenciled boots and stetsons. "K.O. the Kennedys!--Vote Rubel Phillips (Rep)" billboards, "Maintain White Democratic Solidarity--Vote Paul Johnson (Dem)" billboards, Kiwanis! Rotary! Order of the Eastern Star! White Citizens Council...
Erhard was enchanted by all the Texas trimmings-including the gift of a ten-gallon hat and a choral rendition of Tief in dem Herzen von Texas. But he was even more taken with Johnson himself. During an hourlong, deer-spotting drive through the countryside, the President confided that he had not been aware before Nov. 22 of the immense pressures involved in formulating the budget, in trying to conserve money while maintaining the world's security. The American people, he said, wanted to do what was right, but even so were growing weary of the burden of foreign...
Only in one key state for Republicans was a really discordant note heard. In Ohio, U.S. Representative Robert Taft, son of the late great Mr. Republican, announced his 1964 candidacy for the Senate seat of Incumbent Dem ocrat Stephen Young, told newsmen that a national Republican ticket headed by Goldwater "would make it difficult" for his senatorial campaign in Ohio...
This was the cue for Communist dem onstrations in half a dozen West Eu ropean cities; Nikita Khrushchev, no stranger to executions, had the gall to send a personal appeal for clemency to Franco. Grimau's wife vainly urged President Kennedy to intervene. The international pressure only stiffened the regime's determination to carry out the penalty. At a meeting with his Cabinet, Franco upheld the sentence...