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...overlooked a bridle path named Sunset Boulevard. There were no studio commissaries, nor even any Romanoff's, for the early Hollywood settlers to hang around in. The Beverly Hills provided a lobby with a blazing fire and a bar, and pilgrims like W. C. Fields, John Barrymore, Gene Fowler and Will Rogers came down from the hills and up from the canyons to seek their sustenance...
Despite the ceremonial presence of Queen Elizabeth's 65-year-old Aunt Mary, the Princess Royal, Trinidadians had a sort of abandoned-by-Britain feeling. Cuba's Castro and Soviet Premier Khrushchev sent well-wishers. The U.S. substituted AID Director Fowler Hamilton for busy Arthur Goldberg, hoping to interest Trinidad in joining the Organization of American States and so becoming eligible for Alianza para el Progreso assistance. Already receiving $1,100,000 a year from AID, Premier Williams had no hesitation in pronouncing Trinidad "unequivocally west of the Iron Curtain...
...been severely hampered. The Administration got busy to try to stop the House from whacking out the one thing that Kennedy wanted most: freedom to try to pry some nations loose from Moscow with aid. The President summoned congressional leaders of both parties to the White House. Aid Administrator Fowler Hamilton personally pleaded with some 100 Congressmen, and Ambassador George Kennan flew home from his post in Belgrade to make a pitch to the House. The Administration even got key help from Pennsylvania's champion anti-Communist Francis Walter, who argued: "For years one of the major deterrents...
...program began only four months ago and has not had time to operate perfectly. Though he is sending a whole battery of top lieutenants to preach the new program's virtues to Congress, the chief job of making reforms and selling them to Congress falls on Fowler Hamilton, 50, a Wall Street lawyer who took over last fall as boss of the renamed Agency for International Development, has since won both Kennedy's and Congress' respect...
...greeted the tough, austere soldier. Smiling broadly, Vice President Lyndon Johnson pumped General Park's hand on his arrival at the National Airport. Next morning, Park dutifully fulfilled the ritual of laying a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknowns, then talked with State Secretary Dean Rusk and Fowler Hamilton, head of the Agency for International Development. General Park outlined his five-year $2.4-billion plan for South Korea, indicated hopefully that he would like up to half of that sum to come from the U.S. Although Rusk and Hamilton made no promises and told him to rework...