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...When he returned to his Washington apartment one night last week, Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken learned that the President of the U.S., the Secretary of State, and several lesser New Frontiersmen had been trying for hours to reach him. Aiken hurriedly put through a call to Secretary of State Dean Rusk. The President, said Rusk, wanted Aiken to join the U.S. delegation going to Moscow for this week's formal signing of the nuclear test ban treaty (see THE WORLD). The Senator hesitated. "Will I be committed to anything?" he asked. "Will I have to sign...
...City Problems. While small Northern cities may attack the situation in the manner of New Rochelle, big cities, with miles of Negro ghettoes, have problems that range up to hopeless. Washington, where even the most civil-righteous New Frontiersmen are prone to send their children to private schools, can hardly give classes a desegregated look when 85% of public school students are Negro. Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia are marking time. A measure of New York's quandary is that some integration crusaders have proposed mass transfer of whites into Harlem schools, although few officials see it as a workable...
...more, President Kennedy himself is to blame for the record of the 88th. The G.O.P. unity that New Frontiersmen grumble about is in part a response to Kennedy's incessant partisanship, his overzealous efforts to play politics with legislation. Kennedy, furthermore, has hurt some of his own most-heralded proposals. For example, he blurred the prospects for tax revision by submitting a budget with an $11.9 billion deficit...
...their intense preoccupation, they sometimes seem almost too close to their jobs. Not so long ago, the abiding subject of conversation in Washington's political circles was the desires and problems of the folks back home. But no longer. To the New Frontiersmen, although they are concerned about problems everywhere, everything of final importance happens in Washington. What they talk about is Washington and the White House, and the result is a curious quality of intellectual inbreeding. Sometimes they almost sound as though they had invented the town...
...Washington is seen in countless ways. Cigar sales have soared (Jack smokes them). Hat sales have fallen (Jack does not wear them). Bureaucrats show up at work in dark suits, well-shined shoes, avoid button-down shirts (Jack says they are out of style). The more eager New Frontiersmen secure their striped ties with PT-boat clasps-and seem not the least bit embarrassed. The most popular restaurants in Washington are Le Bistro and the Jockey Club, which serve the light Continental foods that Jackie Kennedy features on the White House menu. The less palatable Colony restaurant, tops during...