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Alas, once a straw man always a straw man. The onetime scarecrow of The Wizard of Oz meets an advertising mogul played by Fritz Weaver with Mephistophelean glee. Stan, as the love-smitten dean of women (Eileen Herlie) calls him, becomes a be-spatted decoy for the "Fodorski Foundation." At sea in adland. poor rich Stan is eventually faced with a moral question: Should he throw the big game to save his academic integrity...
...affect weakening ourselves until we are a prey of International Communism." Practicing a policy of "positive opposition," he maintained that "President Kennedy has introduced a lot of legislation that he has no intention of pushing." Wilson included Kennedy's civil rights program and the proposed appointment of Robert C. Weaver as a Negro to the Cabinet among these "patently political" maneuvers...
Despite Lopsided Majorities. In the flush of their victory, Republicans were quick to counterattack. Representative Bob Wilson, chairman of the House Republican Campaign Committee, fired off a telegram to the White House, suggesting that Robert Weaver be named to succeed Abraham Ribicoff, who plans to resign as Health, Education and Welfare Secretary to run for the Senate. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen gleefully assured a press conference that if Weaver were named to the HEW post, "not a single Republican vote" would be cast against...
...press conference, the President fought back feebly. "In regard to Dr. Weaver," he said, "I see now that various people who opposed the Urban Department are now ready to support him for any Cabinet position he wishes-Defense, State, Treasury or anything else . . .I'm sure he is grateful for those good wishes for a Cabinet position where there is no vacancy. Mr. Weaver will get along all right, but I think the question is the people in the cities are the ones who have been defeated...
...years ago in the French town of Montauban, said all his life that his talent came from four sources, all in the family. His father, a furniture maker, gave him his sense of architecture. His uncle, a stonecutter, taught him the secrets of stone. His maternal grandfather, a weaver, gave him his sense of color, and his other grandfather, a shepherd, taught him his love of nature...