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...dustup began last November, when Republican Representative Harrison Chadwick appeared on CBS television and charged that some legislators were involved with bookies. Last week the Democratic-controlled house rules committee was in secret session, trying to decide whether the house should expel Chadwick or merely censure him for his indiscretion. But even as the committee met, Senate President John Powers, a Democrat, fired Robert G. Connolly, a former Democratic legislator who is now chief of the capitol's documents room, for "operating a bookie joint right over our heads beneath the sacred dome." Cried Powers: "He had a radio...
Then, in 1959, the cold war thawed a bit, and along came Mikhail Alekseevich Menshikov. Urbane and nattily dressed, "Smiling Mike" impressed and puzzled Washington with his molar-showing cordiality. Menshikov was all smiles until the U-2 dustup. Then the Russian Ambassador simply vanished from the Washington scene for a while. After the Kennedy in auguration he reappeared, smiling as usual, but in recent months his grin seemed to be wearing thin...
...Guns of Navarone. Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn shoot it up rousingly in this World War II thriller, and no one will mind that after the fourth or fifth dustup it is obvious that the jaws of death have rubber teeth...
...Guns of Navarone. Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn shoot it up rousingly in this World War II thriller, and no one will mind that after the fourth or fifth dustup it is obvious that the jaws of death have rubber teeth...
...Senate floor, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman William Fulbright charged that the Administration had dragged the U.S.'s international prestige to a "new low" by "bumbling and fumbling" during the U-2 dustup. The Administration's handling of the U-2 incident, said Arkansas' Fulbright, taking a slap at Dwight Eisenhower, showed a need for "much firmer direction of all governmental activities affecting foreign relations. If this is not to come from the White House, it should come from the State Department." Back came Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley, ranking Republican on Fulbright's committee, to defend...