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Even Adenauer's firmest friends were alarmed to hear this staunch old democrat voice the essentially totalitarian philosophy that the end justifies the means and that, even in peacetime, due process of law can be set aside to protect the state. Almost unanimously, German editors felt that whatever good intentions lay behind the government's deeds, it all had the sound of an echo from Germany's tragic past. There was no denying that a security breach had been committed, and there were even charges that Der Spiegel had bribed an army officer to divulge military secrets...
...with dramatic ideas, which perplexed and sometimes distressed the White House. His idea of writing in a clause to include mandatory bomb shelters in every FHA loan contract was quietly shunted aside. Shelved too was a plan to enlist churches in the civil defense program, and it took the firmest kind of official persuasion to keep Ellis from flying off to Rome for a papal endorsement...
EDUCATION. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff was already at work clearing the boulder-marred road that lies ahead in Congress for one of Kennedy's firmest campaign promises: an education program calling for $5 billion in new federal expenditure over the next five years. As the President sees it, the Federal Government should make annual grants of some $900 million to the states to build new public schools and supplement teacher salaries (based on a figure of $30 a year per pupil, with a bonus for low-income states and complex big-city plants), provide an additional...
...gets all the comforts, enjoyed himself immensely painting magnificent scenery for a prison show titled Lawyer, Take It Easy (see cut). The "justice" he demands concerns Mexico's somewhat baffling foreign policy. In what it proclaims publicly, the Mexican government appears to be among Castro's firmest friends; in its own affairs, however, no one cracks down harder on Communists and leftists-often illegally...
...assistant, Irvin Hoff, for a brief forward observer's mission through the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast states to seek out the delegates and discover the arcane pockets of potential Johnson strength. Nor are the Johnson enthusiasts restricted to the Senate: two of his closest Washington advisers and firmest supporters are artifacts of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, Dean Acheson and Ben Cohen. "Of all those giant killers running for the presidency," says another Fair Dealer-Wheeler, "Lyndon is the only one who has killed a giant...