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...entanglements which restrict FBI men in this field, and empowered to "prevent, as well as to investigate, violations of constitutional rights." Such a group, the Report fails to observe, would be more closely linked to Attorney General Kennedy's Justice Department than the FBI, which under J. Edgar Hoover's control has remained semi-autonomous. Thus, the Administration would assume a far less ambiguous legal approach toward the civil rights movement...
...this year's budget hearings in Washington, the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover said that the Communists are now most busy trying to infect the minds of American youth with such late-blooming Red publications as New Horizons for Youth, launched in New York two years ago, and Communist Viewpoint, a newsletter born last month that circulates modestly among U.S. colleges. Like the rest, they are pretty anemic-looking stuff...
...Line, a collection of essays on civil disobedience, Goodman scarcely mentions Communism as a cause of the cold war. By Freudian analysis, he traces the origins of the cold war to the pent-up emotions of Americans that must have aggressive outlets. After damning nearly everybody from J. Edgar Hoover to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt for continuing the cold war, Goodman announces his own cure for cold war tensions: "An occasional fist fight, a better orgasm, friendly games, a job of useful work, being moved by things that are beautiful, curious or wonderful...
Stirrings of Life. Not for a long while has the South been solid in presidential elections. Herbert Hoover (mostly because he was running against Catholic Al Smith) and Dwight Eisenhower gathered big batches of Southern electoral votes. In 1960, even in defeat, Richard Nixon carried Florida, Tennessee and Virginia, as well as Oklahoma and Kentucky on the borders of the South. But in elections for lesser offices, the South with scattered exceptions held firm to its Democratic traditions. The G.O.P. showed stirrings of life in the South in 1952 and 1954. Then it stalled, gaining not a single additional congressional...
...security of our country." New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating, who had repeatedly criticized Kennedy for moving too slowly against Cuba, now said that the President's stand "will have the 100% backing of every American regardless of party.'' Declared ex-President Herbert Hoover...