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Testifying in the Billie Sol Estes investigation, former Agriculture Department Official Emery ("Red") Jacobs spoke a classic bit of bureaucratese. "The state to which the situation has been definitized," he said, "is uncertain...
...that I shall appoint to public office men of unquestioned honesty and integrity ... I made some mistakes in my appointments before, but I will not make the same mistakes the second time. Truman had his Harry Vaughan, Eisenhower had his Sherman Adams and Bernard Goldfine, Kennedy has his Billie Sol Estes, and I had some myself...
...opponents tried to tag him with his friendship with Billie Sol Estes. Billie Sol and Clement, both named among the Junior Chamber of Commerce's "Outstanding Young Men" of 1953, became pretty good buddies: Clement named Billie Sol an honorary colonel on the Governor's staff; Billie Sol cut Clement in on a couple of financial deals. But that didn't seem to matter. The people of Tennessee apparently just love to hear Frank Clement talk. And so does...
Through months of tension heightened by the Billie Sol Estes scandal and the defeat of his farm bill, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman has managed to keep surprisingly cool and collected. Last week he exploded with a loud political bang-and sent his shrapnel spraying over the Republican Party...
Spain's Costa Brava, In five years ago, is Out now, though the Costa del Sol is still O.K. Out are St.-Tropez and Jamaica. In are Barbados, the Greek islands, and Sardinia, where the Aga Khan (very In) is building a resort. Southampton is In; Newport is coming back In fast, partly because of the Kennedys, who were married there at Jackie's mother's shorefront house...