Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Buckley's verbal agility never flagged all through the question-andanswer period that followed his talk. Asked what he thought would happen to Mayor Lindsay's political career if he were appointed to the Senate, Buckley disposed of his former opponent with a casual "I don't know. Where will he give fewer speeches?" And what about ex-Mayor Robert F. Wagner's appointment as Ambassador to Spain? Nothing wrong with that, said Buckley of his former Democratic nemesis' new assignment. "After all, he doesn't have to run Madrid...
...part, the President would like to see a provision tacked onto his bill calling for registration and licensing of guns. But he fears it would result in time-killing hearings or a lengthy debate in Congress. Without question, he considers the gun-control provision in the omnibus crime bill to be hopelessly weak. He is not at all happy about the rest of the bill, either, though he reluctantly signed it into law last week. Johnson had considered vetoing the bill, but was assured by eleven governmental departments whose advice he had requested that most sections would hold up under...
Murder Climate. This question seems finally to have seeped into the consciences of TV's producers, as well as those of the network brass. Six days after the Robert Kennedy assassination, Jerry Paris, who directed the gentle and funny Dick Van Dyke Show, but who also had acted in The Untouchables, took advertisements in the Hollywood trade papers announcing: "I will no longer lend my talents in any way to add to the creation of the climate for murder. I have looked into the mirror. I see myself and the face of our industry. I do not like what...
...budget cuts. Most of this extra money would go for emergency renovation, so that the hospital can retain at least its probationary status. Help may come from Washington, where Massachusetts' Senator Edward M. Kennedy has been plugging for federal loans to crisis-ridden municipal hospitals. But the question remains whether the financial therapy will be quick and massive enough to save Boston City...
...brooding, heavy-browed Senator and the soft-cheeked, puffy-eyed young lawyer, exchanging eager whispers or concerned glances. Now and again the Senator would raise a rasping voice to plead a "point of order." Now and again the young counsel would scuttle through his papers for a sharp question or a deft answer...