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...maneuvering. At first, Vinson seemed to have everything well in hand. His Armed Services Committee had voted unanimously-21 Democrats and 16 Republicans-to force the RS-70 issue. Vinson could count on the floor votes of most Democratic Congressmen unless President Kennedy personally intervened -and Kennedy, fearing to offend one of the Congress' most influential members, was reluctant to move. Vinson also thought he would have the support of most Republican Representatives on an issue that could only be embarrassing to a Democratic President...
...along with Vinson's attempt to direct the Administration to build the RS-70s; it is even less certain that the President, under the Constitution, would be required to obey. But Carl Vinson is too powerful, and too good a friend of the military and the Administration, to offend with impunity...
...satirist will probably discuss his striking respectability in a speech this Sunday, accompanying the Poets Theatre production of his one act play, Crawling Arnold, and their dramatization of his sketches. The apparent ease with which these cartoon strips can be translated into dramatic skits does not offend Feiffer the artist. Although his subtle, deceptively fine drawings will not come into play, his terse dialogue can well stand alone. And neither writer nor artist begrudge the other any success...
...curiosities straight from the African jungle. Said Sunday Nwokorie, a Nigerian studying at Atlanta University: "When I came here, Negro students asked me how many wives I had. Was I a village chief? Did I have snakes in my room? I found these questions were not intended to offend me. It was merely ignorance," Added Andrew Makhene of South Africa, another student at Atlanta University: "I have met several white college students in the South, and they never ask me such silly questions...
Boston Bloomfield, professor of English that "It is not a great literary but it should have a chance to be heard. It might shock people, but it offend them...