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...many cartoonists and editorial writers, the man chiefly responsible was Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, who at one point observed: "Someone has to kill Cock Robin, and it might as well be me." Last week, however, Dirksen argued that the Administration had signally failed to ride to Robin's rescue. "Where was Hubert? Where was the President?" he rumbled. Pointing to the Democrats' 67-33 margin in the Senate, he added: "Had the Democrats in the Senate truly wished it, the bill would have passed...
Holy propaganda! No sooner had TV's Batman and Robin resumed their camp crusading for another season than the Soviet humor magazine Krokodil published a humorless tirade calling them "idealized representatives of the FBI." The show, said the editorial writer, is attracting "more and more millions of children, teenagers and underdeveloped adults. Betmvenomaniya is raging in American schools like the plague. The games of children are becoming cruel. Batman is making the spiritual night of America darker." Gleeps...
Since the first meeting in May 1963, Kennedy Round negotiations have moved mostly in circles. The idea, advanced by President Kennedy, was to put through a big round robin of tariff reductions. But before they could present their own tariff-cutting package to the rest of the non-Communist nations involved, the Common Market countries had to settle all sorts of arguments among themselves. And as the Common Market kept calling time out, a deadline grew ever closer: the authority granted by Congress to the President of the U.S. to chop tariffs by 50% expires on June...
...York's new master of games also showed up on Central Park's Mall to introduce Batman and Robin and dutifully wore his Bat tie. "It unfolds and becomes a cape," he told the awed gaggle of youngsters. He was also on hand for the Beatles at Shea Stadium, stopped off to buy a new Honda Hawkeye for faster mobility through traffic, and was ad-libbing at an outdoor park fashion show, backed by the blasting rock 'n' roll of a Yale combo known as the Five-Card Stud, when he got a call from...
There was Bill Bones and Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver; Blind Pew was flailing the darkness with his crooked Cane, and Robin Hood with his merry outlaws was routing the Sheriff of Nottingham's lackeys. As visitors to the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Me., soon realized last week, this was no mere art exhibition: it was a trip back through all the hallowed haunts of childhood, from Treasure Island to Sherwood Forest to Stirling Castle. The artist? None other than famed Illustrator Newell Convers Wyeth...