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Last week Congress had before it a bill that would make gun-toting tougher and that would cut drastically into the multimillion-dollar-a-year business of weaponry by mail. Drawn up by the Administration and introduced in the Senate by Connecticut Democrat Thomas J. Dodd, the measure would, among other things...
Legislators who had already supported Johnson's Viet Nam policy now did so more forcefully than ever. Notable among them was Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas Dodd, who in a 2½-hour Senate speech said: "Whether we decide to abandon Southeast Asia or to try to draw another line outside Viet Nam, the loss of Viet Nam will result in a dozen more Viet Nams in different parts of the world. If we cannot cope with this type of warfare in Viet Nam, the Chinese Communists will be encouraged in the belief that we cannot cope with...
...Time for a Munich." There were, of course, strong opposing voices. To call for negotiations now, said Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd, would be like urging that "Churchill enter into negotiations with the Germans at the time of Dunkirk or that President Truman enter into negotiations with the Communists when we stood with our backs to the sea in the Pusan perimeter." Said Wyoming Democrat Gale McGee: "This is no time for another Munich. If Red China is prepared to expand its sphere of influence and territory in Southeast Asia, we might as well find out now, before...
Died. Jimmie Dodd, 54, impresario of Walt Disney's TV kiddie show, the Mickey Mouse Club, from its beginning in 1955 to its finale in 1959, who proved beyond doubt that youth is a state of mind by wearing his "mouseketeer" ears like a crown and praising patience, protein, and Brussels sprouts as if they were the show's sponsors; after a short illness; in Honolulu...
...current favorite is Rhode Island's John Pastore, one of the Senate's sharpest debaters and the 1964 Democratic Convention keynoter. Other possibilities: Louisiana's Russell Long, Maine's Edmund Muskie, Michigan's Philip Hart, Hawaii's Daniel Inouye, Connecticut's Thomas Dodd, Florida's George Smathers...