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...President, who continued to visit or pen a note to the hospital every couple of days, tried again to squelch the chatter about retiring Dulles. To G.O.P. congressional leaders, meeting at the White House, he passed the word in firm tones: "It is my responsibility." In press conference he praised Senators who (unlike Symington and Humphrey) "have expressed very prayerfully their great hope that he will be spared to go on with his work." By week's end Eisenhower's plain words had wiped out any excuses for confusion: Dulles would not retire unless he declared himself physically...
...your old man," said Vag, annoyed. He hoped to squelch whoever was playing games...
...President and his allies are interested in preserving appearances, their best bet is to find a method of graceful retreat. But until the dim day when they decide that Chiang's islands are expendable, they should not attempt to squelch or denigrate public opinion on this matter...
...hundred side streets one night last week, solitary Italian males popped discreetly into familiar shuttered houses for one final fling. Outside, plainclothes cops prowled, ready to squelch any farewell parties that showed signs of getting out of hand. Surrendering its distinction as the last West European nation to boast legalized brothels, Italy finally closed down its "houses of tolerance...
...Most Serious Problem." The political battle was stalemated, too. At his press conference last week, President Eisenhower made it clear that, if necessary, he would again send troops to Little Rock to squelch violent defiance of federal court orders. Each state, he said, is duty bound to keep mob violence from frustrating "the preservation of individual rights as determined by a court decree . . . My feelings are exactly as they were a year ago." At the same time, the President again declined to bring the moral influence of his office to bear on the integration issue. In a remarkable self-evaluation...