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...Cause to Howl. Pundit Lippmann's cup of wormwood spilled over: "President Kennedy is in grave trouble. If, after the appalling mistake of judgment in the Cuban venture, he allows himself to be sucked into the quicksands of Laos, he will have compromised, perhaps irrevocably, his influence on events." For the architects of failure in Cuba, Lippmann hotly demanded expulsion ("The mistake can be purged and confidence can be restored only by the resignation of the key figures who had the primary responsibility"), and fingered the culprits: "Bissell and Dulles of the CIA, Lemnitzer and Burke of the Joint...
PRINCETON, N.J., March 11--Harvard's Bruce Hunter finally got his sprint double in the EISL individual championships, but let there be no doubt that this was Princeton's night to howl...
...languish. But Humphrey's pleasure faded when Kennedy failed to name Minnesota as one of the food-stamp areas. The President mentioned only Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia and Illinois. Humphrey quickly got on the phone, found that Detroit would be area No. 5, and set up a big howl. Never mind, he said, that the Administration had named only five trouble spots; his bill had authorized six-and where was Minnesota? Answer: Minnesota became area...
...Frontier, Kennedy thought seriously about retaining Eisenhower Appointee Thomas Gates as Defense Secretary. But Pennsylvania Democrats were convinced that Philadelphian Gates had his eye either on the Harrisburg Statehouse, held by Democrat David Lawrence, or on Democrat Joseph Clark's Senate seat, and would have raised a howl had Kennedy decided to reappoint Gates...
...this assumption is false: there is a logic of segregation. It is logical for a local planning commission that expects no positive help from the Federal Housing Authority to bow and echo the discriminatory outlook of its community and state. It is logical for an individual to howl at Negroes attending his school when he would be ostracized for befriending them. It is the path of least resistance, and more; it is a rational alternative...