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THOMAS J. DODD U.S. Senate Washington...
First the State Department refused Katanga's President Moise Tshombe a U.S. visa. Then ex-Major General Edwin A. Walker, now a Democratic candidate for Governor of Texas, was disinvited at the demand of Republican Senators Barry Goldwater and John Tower. Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas Dodd said he would not come if Walker could not. Columnist David Lawrence wrote that he "doesn't participate in rallies of this kind." Ex-President Herbert Hoover dedined to interrupt a fishing trip to Key Largo. Film Cowboy John Wayne stayed back at the ranch in Hollywood. Young Americans...
...Last November President Kennedy asked John McCone, former head of the Atomic Energy Commission and now Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to suggest the right man for the tough job of building Task Force 8. McCone's answer was brief: "Get Starbird." Within days, Major General Alfred Dodd Starbird, 49, was squeezing his lanky frame (6 ft. 5 in.) behind a desk in Barton Hall, a building saved from the wrecker's hammer by the sudden need for a temporary headquarters for the task force. A handsome, scholarly and reserved West Pointer, Starbird finished a respectable seventh...
...rest of the scheduled list of speakers, Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn.) has announced his withdrawal on the grounds that "there were too many Republicans" and he would be "the only Democrat." Sen. Strom Thurmond, however, is still planning to attend...
...political positions. In his extended dialogues, Feiffer can instead explore social attitudes and reactions without relying on names and ready-made categories to summarize an issue. The Globe reader who glances at Feiffer's strip before moving on to Terry and the Pirates, can't mutter, "He's against Dodd, the son-of-a-bitch...