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...Quirk dove for the tape and took first place with Clayton taking second on a lean. Both were timed...
...whole being is out of step with the Southern lifestyle. He comes from the wrong place; his appearance is unkempt. To people here, he seems to talk funny and think differently. Southerners will not forget that Kennedy supported Charles Evers in Mississippi, that he was an early Viet Nam dove and that he helped sabotage Haynsworth and Carswell. The code word for all these attitudes is "Chappaquiddick." The word is heard often and is used, says Alabama Democratic State Chairman Bob Vance, "like a kick in the groin." In the Deep South most folks criticize Kennedy for having an unmarried...
...calculation-that it is better to sacrifice Vietnamese lives than American ones-seems to satisfy the U.S. public, so that for the time being continuing the bombing costs the President little politically. Eventually, stronger emotional opposition to the air war may build. Senator Harold Hughes of Iowa, a Democratic dove, complained that the President's policies show "no indication of any termination to this...
...ungentlemanly complaint about one of their own, but the gentlemen of the Establishment rallied round. A review of the appointment was quietly undertaken. Some members of the council expressed reservations, but insisted that once proffered, the offer should not be rescinded. George Ball, the most persistent high-ranking dove within the Johnson Administration, came to the defense of his onetime adversary. Said Ball: "I am appalled by the McCarthyism of the left that is going on here. If we're going to go into this sort of personal denunciation, we're going to go through a very ugly...
...sometimes to the beat of hard rock. In mid-August, more than a thousand young followers descended on The Way Biblical Research Center in New Knoxville, Ohio (pop. 850), for a weekend of spiritual study almost continuously backgrounded by rock. Musical groups of Way believers with names like The Dove, Cookin' Mama, and one from Long Island called Pressed Down, Shaken Together & Running Over, belted out the sounds...