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...Bludgeoning & Blackmailing." With those persuasive political figures in mind, the Administration and the House Democratic leaders went to work. Majority Whip Hale Boggs and his staff, worried about Democrats who had already left for their Easter vacations, got on the phone, persuaded dozens, including six from California, to return for the vote. At White House urging, labor organizations, along with local-government groups, began calling and wiring Congressmen, telling them what the money would mean to the old home town. Texas' Democratic Representative Wright Patman inserted in the Congressional Record a 33-page list of all the communities that...
President Kennedy had planned to set out at midweek for an Easter holiday at Palm Beach. But then came word that a small steel company had announced a price hike (see U.S. BUSINESS). Kennedy postponed his leavetaking, called in Administration officials for consultation, finally came out with a statement that, compared to his savage 1962 assault on U.S. Steel, seemed downright benign-and gave the stock market a general lift. Then the President and a few friends jetted to Florida...
...last time Pearson and Kennedy met was at the White House dinner for Nobel prizewinners last spring, dubbed by Pearson "The President's Easter Egghead Roll." "I believe we can get back on a very friendly and cooperative basis without difficulty," Pearson says. "I know our relations are going to be complicated and at times difficult. The thing that matters is to accept our responsibilities...
Thus, as it has every spring since the Middle Ages, began one of the world's most brutally powerful Easter Week processions. The hooded figure was that of a conscience-stricken French sinner whose identity was known only to the local curate, Father Jean Baptiste Scuitti. From wherever he had come, the man was there voluntarily to atone for his sins by enacting the role of Christ making his way to Calvary. To Corsicans, as always, he was known only as Le Catenacciu (The Enchained...
...introduced a motion commending the Fire departments of Cambridge and 11 other towns and cities that helped extinguish the Easter blase, and then amended it to include the proposal for obtaining aid. The resolution was approved unanimously...