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Clare Luce was quick to see that she had a dilemma to face. If the news became public, there would be an inevitable headline hue. In this ticklish situation the secret was born. CIA and embassy officials quietly went to work. U.S. and Italian employees at the villa and the embassy were quickly investigated. No individual who had any close contact with the ambassador seemed even remotely a suspect...
...chairman of the Democratic convention platform committee: Massachusetts' John W. McCormack, 64. House Majority Leader McCormack, who is, as National Chairman Butler put it, "widely respected both on Capitol Hill and throughout the country for his fairness and understanding," tackled the same chairmanship in 1952. His most ticklish chore this year: steering his committee through to an acceptable civil-rights plank...
...minor complaint is that ticklish situations sometimes arise between University Hall and a remote Harvard Club in regard to the screening of a prospective freshman. Critical standards are likely to vary with the miles, the years, and the enthusiasm of the interviewing alumnus, so that an applicant highly recommended in Spokane, Washington may get turned down in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A flustered air mail correspondence often results...
...Hagerty, went to the isthmus last week to confer with President Ricardo Arias and help set up press and cable arrangements. On White House instructions he also discreetly learned "Dickie" Arias' golf handicap (an impressive two) without revealing Ike's. For his part, President Arias solved the ticklish problem of the presidential suite. He reportedly decided that he himself will occupy it as his conference headquarters...
...Princeton debacle puts the varsity in a ticklish position. In order to stay in any kind of contention for the EIBL, they must win today's game and then go on to beat such teams as Dartmouth and Yale...