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Strong evidence of the Democrats' restiveness is the fact that they willingly let Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a long time party bulwark, threaten a floor fight over the RS-70 long after the President and Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara expressly announced their opposition to expanding the bomber program. Congressional Democrats may thus be serving notice on President Kennedy that they are not above jabbing his ribs if he does not pay them more dutiful attention...
...these minstrels wander about, some of the time they huddle around a table like displaced poker players. The cast and chorus nimbly change settings, rotating panels and moving other airily designed scenic props. The dances bear Joe Layton's inventive signature, but excessive leg, arm, and hand signals threaten to turn the chorus into a platoon of animated traffic cops. As director, Layton has used all these devices to generate motion, at best the poor relation of action...
...continues to grow, it may come to threaten the continued existence of many "amateur" undergraduate organizations. The Student Calendar now competes directly with non-professional student publications; and a new typing agency may end the independent, unorganized operations in this area...
Since no party stands to win a clear majority, De Gaulle's prestige is still the most potent political force in France. If opposition groupings should get too strong, he can threaten to dissolve the National Assembly and take any issue to the nation. One such issue may well be his plan to revise the constitution to provide for the direct popular election of a President...
...simply to blame the Russians for the failure of negotiations is not very enlightening" to the complications of diplomacy. To threaten them is not asking for their agreement to anything, Riesman observed...