Word: lames
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this trip necessary? The impetus for the journey came from a January invitation from Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani, but Fanfani's government had since fallen, and the President would be visiting an Italy in political turmoil. In West Germany he would be calling on a lame-duck Chancellor; in Britain his host would be the unhappy head of a scandal-rocked Tory government. There were problems at home that needed the President's attention. But by last week's end, after completion of more than half the trip, it was clear that while...
...office. As opposition critics pounced, Erlander went on television to explain: "It is impossible for the government to be informed of every person who is under suspicion. We need more proof in a democratic society before we can take action." It sounded like a lame excuse to Liberals and Conservatives, who demanded a parliamentary investigation. Meanwhile, always the gentleman, Wennerstrom reportedly asked his attorney to send back his Legion of Merit, calmly faced a probable life sentence for "gross espionage...
...Profumo rumors to Macmillan's principal private secretary. Confronted with the story, Profumo denied everything to several officials; the relationship had been innocent, he said, and anyway had ended long before. Why didn't the Prime Minister question Profumo himself at any time? Macmillan's lame answer: he assumed that Profumo would speak more freely to others, and furthermore such an interrogation would have made "social relations" between himself and Profumo highly embarrassing. And why didn't anyone attempt to interrogate Christine herself to check out Profumo's denial? To this, Macmillan had no answer...
...against Cuba because of the lame Administration stand on integration thus far. When the group suggested to Bobby that the President might help the situation by making a dramatic public appearance-such as personally escorting a Negro into the University of Alabama -the Attorney General laughed in his disbelief that it could be a serious proposal. Dr. Kenneth Clark, Negro psychologist at New York's City College, said later: "There was no communication. I think we might as well have been talking different languages...
...West Germany, Christian Democratic Union leaders forced gnarled old Konrad Adenauer to agree to step down next fall and let Ludwig Erhard take over as Chancellor. Accordingly, Kennedy's host in West Germany will be a lame duck, and Kennedy will have the sticky problem of treating with Erhard while Adenauer, who openly dislikes Erhard, is still in charge. Adenauer decided to accompany Kennedy to West Berlin, thereby peeving Social Democratic Mayor Willy Brandt. The Russians announced that they will consider an Adenauer visit to Berlin "provocative...