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...insists: "I couldn't stand to go to all those banquets." In fact, Fulbright is off Johnson's guest list because the President resents the Senator's criticism of Administration foreign policy. Fulbright has not only castigated the U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic as "a grievous mistake" but of late has also publicly criticized the deepening American involvement in Viet...
...meeting of the candidates last night to postpone the election until Thursday. He admitted that some of the posters were in very poor taste. Though he was planning to request that they be removed, he said he could not condone the anonymous action "Impersonating a University officer is a grievous sin," he told the candidates...
Fulbright called the intervention as "grievous" a mistake as the Bay of Pigs invasion of Communist Cuba. He accused the U.S. of intervening "not to save American lives, as was contended, but to prevent the victory of a revolutionary movement" wrongly judged to be Communist-dominated. President Johnson, said Fulbright, reacted to "exaggerated estimates of Communist influence in the rebel movement," then overreacted by sending in 20,000 troops. To make matters worse, the U.S. then took sides with Brigadier General Antonio Imbert's loyalist junta-"a corrupt and reactionary military oligarchy." Concluded Fulbright: "If we are automatically...
Bambole, or "Dolls," is the playful sex comedy that scandalized the Vatican, provoked a near crisis over movie censorship in the Italian government, and brought grievous moments to scrumptious Gina Lollobrigida, who told a Roman judge that during her celebrated "nude" scene she was wearing a flesh-colored coverall. Pending the outcome of charges that Lollo and her codefendants may have perpetrated an immoral exhibition, movie exhibitors everywhere are itching to unreel the evidence. It consists of a four-part comedy, vaguely inspired by The Decameron, in which a quartet of beauties with little on their minds and less...
Fancy Footwork. Delivering his maiden speech in the Senate, Bobby recalled that Republican Governor Rockefeller had been notably lukewarm toward the idea of having his state included in the aid-to-Appalachia program. This, Bobby said, was "a grievous error." He offered an amendment to the effect that the Appalachian Regional Commission, also to be set up under the Johnson bill, be directed to consider the inclusion of 13 southern New York counties under the program...