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...Dove to Hawk. At first an ardent supporter of F.D.R. and the New Deal, Russell later tempered his view. "I'm a reactionary when times are good," he explained, "but in a depression, I'm a liberal." Like other Southerners, he remained in the Senate term after term. His biggest battle was an early one. In his first bid for reelection, he had to fight off gallus-snapping Eugene Talmadge, who was an out-and-out racist in comparison with Russell...
...Dulles' proposal to commit military advisers to Viet Nam. "If you send 200 now," the Senator warned President Eisenhower prophetically, "you'll have to send 20,000 before it's over." When Ike decided to send them anyway, Russell loyally turned, in his own words, from dove "into a screaming hawk." Said he: "When the Commander in Chief committed our flag and our forces to that unhappy land, he committed...
...walls have long been plastered with posters depicting fierce guerrillas wielding blazing Kalashnikov submachine guns. Now Al-Fatah, largest of the fedayeen organizations, is trying to create a less belligerent image. The newest Fatah wall poster shows a rose growing out of a gun barrel, a Picasso-style peace dove and the English inscription FOR LOVE,PEACE AND FREEDOM...
...contingent passed the physical. And there was solace, even for them. As one of the unfortunates was told, by a luckier registrant wielding an X-ray like a bloody sword, "All you have to do is ask for a personal appearance in New Rochelle. The examiner there is a Dove and he'll put braces on you himself before he'll accept...
...public, Hughes was often seen with the stars of the day−Billie Dove, Lana Turner, Linda Darnell, Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Ava Gardner, Ida Lupino. In private, he visited many others−young, eager, and not too prudish unknowns. Hughes called them "crows," but he feared rebuff even from them. It was the job of one of his public relations men to see that the green light was up before Hughes ever appeared on the scene. He once boasted that he had deflowered 200 virgins in Hollywood; the wonder was that he could find so many...