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...giant rallies and late-hour major speeches. He has scheduled a "Win with Nixon" telethon (9 p.m. to 1 a.m.) in which he will answer questions called in by telephoning viewers. Most of all, his strategy depends on ignoring Shell-thereby not making the hard-Shell right any madder-and concentrating his fire on the shilly-shally administration of Pat Brown...
What Kennedy (and Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg, who rushed to the White House at summons from the President) said to Blough remains unreported-but it is certain that the U.S. has rarely had a madder President. When Blough left after 50 minutes, he looked far from jolly, yet he remained determined to go ahead with the price rise...
...months U.S. career servicemen in Europe have been getting madder and madder at President Kennedy's order cutting off Government-paid transportation and housing for wives and children who want to be with their G.I.s overseas. Complained a European field commander in a recent message to his Pentagon superiors: "Without the stabilizing effect of a wife and children, we may be creating more social problems than we are solving on the economic front...
...Wilson interpreted Attorney General Robert Kennedy's recent trip abroad as a political move that helped "Bobby" and very few others. "The harm done to the State Department, to the positions of Adlai Stevenson and Lyndon Johnson (vice-Presidents usually make such trips) is hard to evaluate... Lyndon is madder than hell about it." Wilson noted the ever increasing part that at the younger Kennedy is playing in the present administration, and at one time, compared him to the Harry Hopkins of New Deal fame...
...tells himself, when there is a fall from what sportsmen call "form," mystics call "grace" and gamblers call "luck." What actually happens is that intensity of sensation lacks duration. The Hemingway hero is a collector of great moments, but he refuses to acknowledge pauses or intermissions. He calls for madder music and redder wine, and if that fails, he pronounces that phase of his life dead. The activism of Hemingway's generation, politically and otherwise, and its habit of first embracing and then abandoning a person, a party or a cause, were attempts to keep the intensity of sensation...