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...Press Secretary Pierre Salinger set the wires burning again with the charge that the story "was a cheap effort by a nightclub owner to use the First Family for publicity purposes," and A. P. President Benjamin McKelway was servicing a wordy personal apology to Jackie. Cause of all the hubbub: a zingy Jackie-lookalike, Stephanie Laye Javits, socialite wife of the nephew of New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, had been undulating at the Golden Falcon, near Pompano Beach. Shrugged Steffi: "I don't know what I can do about it; I have...
While tumult and hubbub reigned in U.A.W. councils, Detroit last week wound up its new model offerings with the introduction of the 1962 Buicks. As standard equipment, the compact Special has a new (for the U.S. auto industry) 135 h.p., cast-iron V-6 engine, which replaces the more expensive aluminum V-8 and cuts $100 off last season's list prices. In styling, both the compact and standard Buicks are little changed, although the standard Buick's extra inch in width and two to four in length lend it a lower, more massive look...
...hubbub of conflicting opinions, only one voice was silent. Fidel Castro, who has never been known to shrink from public speech, had not been heard from for two weeks. The frustrated committee finally sent an ultimatum to Havana, gave Castro until midweek to accept its offer or call the whole thing...
...world; but a decision on farm supports is another matter. Last week Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman held his first major conference with representatives of national farm groups, sadly watched the meeting deteriorate into bitter arguments for and against Government control of farm policy. As hubbub rose, National Farmers Union President James Patton cracked: "Agriculture is so highly organized it's disorganized. We sound like a babble of voices." The babble broke up at noon-with no agreement in sight...
...force ought to be excused from duty on the Jewish High Holy Days last week seemed to Commissioner Kennedy scarcely worth considering. He had already ordered every one of the 24,000 cops in the city, except those on vacation, to stand emergency duty during all the hubbub of international visitors to the U.N. He was working round the clock himself, and he saw no reason for anyone else to demand any sort of holiday. "Now when are these men religious?" the commissioner asked a TV interviewer when the question came up. "Is it just during this period, during...