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Later, Kennedy wrote Stevenson a "Dear Adlai" letter that, without undercutting Bartlett and Alsop, expressed "regret at the unfortunate stir" and "fullest confidence" in Stevenson. Toward week's end, while introducing the President at a Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation dinner, Master of Ceremonies Stevenson joked about the whole flap. Introducing Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver as an "instant peace" salesman so successful that "he makes the United Nations cry for it," Stevenson quipped: "As for me. I've been crying for it for the past week." Adlai quoted Joseph Pulitzer's observation, "Accuracy...
Pride in Carolina. Even more determined to have order is South Carolina, a state so proud of its colonial past that it is often said to regret the American Revolution. South Carolina has always preferred a polite white supremacy to redneck ruffianism. Unlike Mississippi, it is run by gentlemen to whom disgrace is far worse than desegregation. Governor-elect Donald S. Russell, former president of the university, paid only lip service to segregation in his campaign...
...liquor salesman could only have sighed with regret in 1954. Although a thousand relatively docile students filled the Yard and part of Massachusetts Avenue during a rally on the Friday night before the game, alcoholic beverages were...
Speaking of "restraint," it seems the World Council of Churches did not exercise much in expressing their "regret" about the U.S. quarantine of Cuba. They attacked President Kennedy's decision within 24 hours after it was announced...
...Northern Rhodesia railhead of Broken Hill, where he once stoked coal as a locomotive fireman, Sir Roy Welensky, Prime Minister of the crumbling Central African Federation, issued a dire warning: "If the wrong people are elected, we will regret it forever...