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...bitterest pill of all was the general Republican disapproval. A sort of "abominable noman" to Eisenhower loyalists in need of favors from the Federal Government, Adams was the tough cop many could admire but few tried to like. Now that he himself was in trouble, many remembered his relentless judgment against Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott, who once or twice solicited business for his efficiency-engineering firm on official Air Force stationery. Talbott and others had gone out complaining that the implacable Adams never gave them a chance to square up things, clear their names...
...through the afternoon, Peronista demonstrations flared up in central streets, but Frondizi's new police chief sent in cops with tear gas to disperse the mobs. It was an encouraging reminder that, whatever Frondizi said on the campaign trail, he was one of Perón's bitterest critics while the strongman ruled. Getting right down to his huge job at week's end, the new President sent his amnesty bill along to Congress and announced a total ban on imports until a list of priorities could be drawn...
...Baker. Neil McElroy "congenially offered up major portions of the legislation for rewriting by the hostile House Armed Services Committee. Thus, before the rousing all-out battle pledged by the President was ever joined, Mr. McElroy had set the stage for a compromise settlement with the plan's bitterest critics...
...both ruthless and devious in his striving for space. To some, Von Braun's transfer of loyalty from Nazi Germany to the U.S. seemed to come too fast, too easy. Von Braun's critics say he is more salesman than scientist; actually, he learned through the bitterest experience that his space dreams had to be sold ("I have to be a two-headed monster-scientist and public-relations man"). Others claim that the onetime boy wonder of rocketry has become too conservative, e.g., a West Coast rocketeer says that Von Braun is wary of unproved new ideas...
...Blood Feud." Adnan Menderes chooses to treat such criticism of his policies as personal persecution. "This," he once shouted in response to a series of political attacks, "is not democracy; it is a blood feud!" He has cracked down on the urban intellectuals who are his bitterest opponents, just as they were Ataturk's. In one repressive move after another, he persuaded the Grand National Assembly to bar university professors from politics, authorize the forcible retirement of judges unsympathetic to the government, and establish heavy fines and prison sentences for newsmen whose writings could be considered "harmful...