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...running LBJ's statewide campaign--is a favorite with the hometown voters. While Johnson is heavily favored to sweep the nine delegate seats of Queens' sixth, seventh, and ninth Congressional districts, he could lose the eighth. This is because the Congressman from the eighth, Ben Rosenthal, is a dove--"as out of place here as Fulbright is in Arkansas," noted one observer. Rosenthal and his supporters can put up a delegate slate which his prestige as a popular incumbent could well carry to victory...
...Beany (Marco St. John), a free spirit who sponges on Daddy for the cost of living. Beany is a dove on Viet Nam, and he has brought home a Negro sweetie (Carol Cole) to wed. In short, the boy is a one-man international drawing-room crisis. Vidal's cute switch ploy on the miscegenation problem is to present the girl's parents as prim, upper-middle-class social conservatives who are adamantly opposed to an interracial match. They dread what their Westchester County neighbors might say, and cringe at the notoriety of having their daughter...
Between Extremes. Frustration only feeds extreme views both on the hawk and the dove side. There are some who want saturation bombing of Haiphong's harbor, then of Haiphong and Hanoi themselves, and finally of the Red River dikes. Others talk instead of a phase-down or even quick withdrawal. As it has been for so long, the President's position seems firm and fixed between the extremes. He is determined to stand fast. He is, moreover, determined to hold Khe Sanh, for he believes that the loss of the outpost would allow the Communists to roll from...
Ford who will take the dove position, has been quiet in public about his views on Vietnam. In an address last spring, however, he did call...
While most U.S. papers have moved closer to the political center, Loeb has stayed resolutely on the far right. Warring against the twin evils of taxation and timidity in foreign affairs, he has substituted his own eagle-chicken classification for the customary hawk-dove. By his definition, even Walt Rostow and Robert McNamara qualify for the "chicken" category. "The harbor of Haiphong," he says repeatedly, "should be bombed...