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Reformers & Reds. In the Senate, Fulbright's colleagues, who had access to the same files as he, rose one after another to dispute his conclusions. Said Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas J. Dodd: intervention was an "unavoidable necessity." Fulbright, he noted, "suffers from an indiscriminate infatuation with revolutions of all kinds -national, democratic or Communist...
Lyndon's Turn. But when the showdown came, the committee was deadlocked once again, with Dodd and Javits both opposing Dirksen. "For Christ's sake, Tommy!" exploded Ev. "You said you'd give me your vote." A doublecross? "He just misunderstood me," said Dodd. "These things happen." As for promising committee action on the immigration bill, shrugged Dirksen, "that was just general conversation." In any case, Dirksen forced a one-week postponement of the immigration bill as a point of personal privilege, and Ev's allies talked darkly of demanding full-blown hearings that might well...
This time, Dirksen was reasonably confident that he had the votes. He counted Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd for sure and possibly New York Republican Jacob Javits as well. If Dirksen thought he had a deal, so did the Senate's liberals who understood that they could get their immigration bill cleared as soon as a vote-any vote-had been taken on reapportionment...
Buchanan shared honors with Yale's Dodd Fisher and Harry Joyner of Army. Buchanan had beaten Fisher the week before in the Harvard-Yale match at the Country Club in Brookline. Joyner sank a wedge shot for an eagle on the 34th hole to join the deadlock...
Unsettling Toll. As chairman of the Senate Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency, Dodd conducted hearings that disclosed some unsettling facts. In 1963, approximately 1,000,000 "dangerous weapons" were sold by mail-order firms. Of some 5,000 persons murdered with firearms that year, about 2,500 were shot with mail-order guns. In Chicago, over a three-year period, 4,000 citizens bought weapons from just two mail-order dealers; of the buyers, 1,000 had criminal records...