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Flaunting the Forbidden. The President was irritated by Cox's speech. But the Administration had had plenty of opportunity to block it. When Justice Department Press Secretary Ed Guthman showed an advance copy of the speech to Washington reporters, they immediately warned that it would raise a ruckus. With that advice in hand. Guthman took the speech to Cox's Justice Department boss. Bobby read it, approved it, and told Cox to go right ahead...
...Council is drawing the nation's middle-road parties into a common, anti-Communist front. Window-smashing mobs can still raise a ruckus in Santo Domingo (formerly Ciudad Trujillo), but now, says one political leader, "each time we have trouble, we have less trouble." The biggest pro-Castro party has lost two-thirds of its original 150,000 members. An anti-Communist national labor federation has won away most of the country's organized workers; anti-Communist student groups have won out in the Dominican Students' Federation...
...domestic issue that does arouse interest-and controversy-is the Kennedy Administration's drive for liberalized foreign trade. But many Congressmen remain undecided about which way the wind blows, and are waiting before taking stands. One thing they agree on: foreign trade is going to raise a real ruckus. Observes Massachusetts' Republican Representative Brad Morse: "The concern isn't from industry; it's from the fellow who wears a cap and sweater to work. He just sees in any expansion of foreign trade a jeopardy to his own employment." Adds Detroit's Democratic Representative John...
...gone. Udall decided-with considerable cause-that much of Washington's statuary was awful; as a step toward remedying the situation, he shipped a bronze statue of William Jennings Bryan back to Bryan's birthplace in Salem, Ill. This raised a ruckus from Washington's Bryan fanciers. Later, a Potomac, Md., innkeeper exploded when Udall, on a hiking trip along the banks of the Potomac River with, among others, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, marched into her place in a rain-soaked poncho. "Get out of here!" she cried. "You look like...
...hill of beans.") But this year the still spiny "Cactus Jack" gaveled down the traditional birthday shivaree that in years past has drawn such guests as Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman and the late Sam Rayburn. Said Garner: "I don't want any fuss or anybody raising a ruckus. I feel good some of the time, but I don't feel so good at other times...