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...Said Bell, with a dry smile: "Forty-five billion." The bigness of that number proved to be prophetic. As Budget Director, Bell regarded spiraling expenditures and gaudy deficits with a cheerfulness that enraged congressional conservatives. Last summer Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry F. Byrd called upon Kennedy to dismiss Bell because he lacked the "requirements of fiscal responsibility and discipline." Far from firing him, Kennedy counted Bell as one of his most valuable advisers...
...past six months of violence, the FBI has made only one arrest, and that followed the bombing of a church in which an FBI man had been injured. One can dismiss as irrelevant the accusation leveled recently by two dissident agents that the Bureau is led and staffed by racially biased men. More significant is the fact that in the South the Bureau must work hand in hand with local police on a myriad of law-enforcement matters, ranging from postal fraud to moonshine liquor. The individual agents have found it impractical, maybe impossible, to disrupt the network of friends...
...half hours in Sanders listening to almost thirty separate numbers. They all were admirably performed but only a very few had much musical substance; the total effect cloyed with its emptiness as much as those long-play records of "gems from the classical repertoire." Now please don't dismiss me as a fellow who can't bear anything less weighty than the Missa Solemnis. In fact, I enjoyed the football songs as much as anything else. The trouble is that almost a whole program of arranged folk songs and slight classics serves no one's interest well...
Faced with humiliating disregard by the Soviet Union before the entire world, and a Communist apparatus of ambiguous loyalties at home, Dr. Castro has decided to condemn and dismiss from government service leaders of the Popular Socialist Party. Last week in the New York Times, Tad Szulc cited a report that "Dr. Castro has almost virtually eliminated most of the 'old line' Communists, responsive to Moscow, from positions of influence in the Cuban government, and has moved in his own trusted aides...
...Socialism owing the Soviet Union no military debt, that country is Cuba. The Soviet distrust of Castro and his colleagues, today so easily forgotten, parallele the Stalinist distrust of the independently victorious Josip Broz Tito. Just as Tito did in the late '40s, Castro has found it necessary to dismiss those politicians who regard the USSR as their patria. Finally, it was a dispute over military autonomy that catalyzed the Yugoslav-Soviet conflict. The same could hold true in Cuba...