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...Louisiana Democrat whose only particular claim to fame is his effective hostility to the foreign-aid program. Always in the past Passman had been backed by Missouri Democrat Clarence Cannon, chairman of the full Appropriations Committee. But Cannon died last May and was succeeded by Texas Democrat George Mahon. At the urging of Fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson, Mahon persuaded the subcommittee to turn down Passman's demands for meat-ax foreign-aid cuts...
Cannon's successor was Texas Demo crat George Mahon, who has voted against aid only once in his 30-year congressional career. The third was the performance of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in preliminary hearings before Passman's subcommittee...
Raymond plays Christy Mahon, the dreamy wanderer whose bloody tale of parricide bewitches every hearer on that lonely and scandal-starved strand. Pegeen clucks over him like a pullet, the Widow Quin sets traps for him, and a bevy-for there is no other word to describe these refugees from some amateurish Pirates of Penzance-of young girls pelt him with phony giggles and surfeit him with breakfasts of duck eggs, fine fat boiled hens, cakes, and pats of butter wrapped in cabbage leaves. Too many cooks can spoil a broth of a boy, and Christy's vanity spurs...
...Confusing? Of course. But no more confusing than the rest of the continuing Cuba controversy. In what may rank as the silliest statement made so far about that controversy, Texas' Democratic Representative George Mahon, chairman of the House Military Appropriations Subcommittee, called on the Administration, Senators and Congressmen to stop answering questions about Cuba. "There has been talk of an intelligence gap," said Mahon. "There is an intelligence gap. The gap is in the intelligence of those who are daily revealing the secrets of the intelligence operations of the U.S. Government." It was "outrageous," he said. "Critics have made...
Presumably, Mahon would have withheld from the nation even such sparse information about Cuba as was officially forthcoming last week. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, for one, reported that enough Soviet shipping is on the way to Cuba to remove "several thousand" Russians. That, of course, will leave several thousand others still in Cuba. The activities of those Russians, both military and civilian, were the highlight last week of a notable CBS-TV "Eye Witness" program...