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After the White House made such a hash out. of an egg-bald attempt to swipe the chef who works for the French Ambassador to London, staffers admit that something is cooking again-but very slowly on the back burner, so as not to stir up a stew. The announcement will be made soon that the White House has a new cook. In the opinion of some who have dined at the White House table, the change is none too soon...
...Baer, who spent several years in a concentration camp, expresses the same tension between technicality and outrage, but resolves it in favor of outrage. "I realize," he says, "that there are a lot of legal questions. I also realize that a lot of old hates are going to be stirred up by the trial. Maybe it would be better not to stir them up. But somehow my sense of poetic justice is too strong...
...Dealing with structural unemployment, said Martin, requires programs that "take into account the who, the where and the why of unemployment," such as training unemployed workers to do other kinds of work. "Attempts to reduce structural unemployment by massive monetary and fiscal stimulation of overall demands," he warned, would stir strong currents of inflation in the economy...
...White House blames Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bill Fulbright for prematurely leaking the ambassadorial appointments lists to the New York Times. Fulbright was an early Kennedy choice for Secretary of State before he was shot down as a segregationist. One result of the leak was to stir up a newspaper ruckus over controversial appointments before approval had been received from the foreign ministries. Principal victim: the Kennedy family's close Palm Beach friend. ex-Cuban Ambassador Earl Smith, who was politely blackballed by the Swiss government (TIME, March...
Fireside chats alone will not stir the country, but they will certainly do more than the TV press conferences. Faced with a decline of American influence abroad, the recession at home, and the necessity to knead a complacent Congress, Kennedy's only chance for carrying through any of his ambitious programs is persuasion. If he cannot or will not scare Americans into believing that the recession is a crisis, he can at least explain to them why some action is needed--which is more than the present TV format permits...