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...three programs are short on specifics. Johnson says that "American ingenuity should be equal to the task" of channeling surplus food to "those who need it," but his own ingenuity has produced only a slogan ("food bin of freedom"). Administration insiders say that Nixon, with the President's tacit blessing, is planning to speak out with a farm program of his own, departing from Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's rigidities enough to sidestep the massive dislike that Benson has piled up among the farmers...
...until the fourth day of the uprising did French newspaper readers learn that the insurgents had freed fellow insurgents from jail, permitted shops to be opened or ordered them to close, shut down Algiers municipal services and were in control of the city with the army's tacit approval...
...Kennedy because their leaders, both Catholics, have enough of an interest in the vice-Presidential nomination to keep off the Kennedy bandwagon. Governor Michael DeSalle and Senator Frank Lausche of Ohio and Governor David Lawrence of Pennsylvania, thus are not able to bargain with Kennedy as long as the tacit prohibition of two Catholics on the same ticket stands...
...moderates but from a brand of leftist nationalists who do not like the U.S., but will go along with the Reds only to a point. The top anti-Communist influences are labor leaders and the Roman Catholic Church. Last week, in a rededication to the faith that became a tacit show of strength against the Reds, a crowd of 200,000, including a subdued and silent Castro, paraded by torchlight into Plaza Civica for midnight Mass, paying homage to Cuba's patron saint, the Virgin of Charity. By radio Pope John XXIII voiced hope that Catholics would "save...
...think that the Bogotá lot of jack rabbits should be allowed permanently to bar one of the future highways of civilization"). Sounded out by Philippe Bunau-Varilla, a Frenchman and chief engineer in Ferdinand de Lesseps' unsuccessful earlier attempt to build a Panama Canal. President Roosevelt gave tacit support to a Panamanian revolution against Colombia. The U.S.-backed plot succeeded; Bunau-Varilla (who went on in later years to lose a leg in an air raid near Verdun) suddenly became Panamanian Minister...