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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700300020-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2004
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: April 16, 1962
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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LOS ANGELES Moviemakers have %bad their
troubles with "PT 109," the story of JFK's World.-
War 11 exploits in the, Pacific. No fewer than
two dozen actors had to be tested 'for the role
of the President (among them: Edd "Kookie"
Byrnes of TV's "7l"Scinset Strip"). Final choice:
36-year.-(jld Clifford Robertson, TV actor and
wartime merchant mariner. JFK gave him the,
pod last weekend,
STATI, DEPARTMENT -The .U.S. is trying a"' ,
newv wrinkle in international public relations.,
have . gttlett u's'ing prl-
tactics
U .S. officials
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vate eontaets q lithe .o ci~ls to lift
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bars against.
WHITE- HOUSEw A a ew`.tlntrje. has been, added
to the list of possib1e-466c+ so to Abi Ribicoff
as Secretary . of. Health,'Education,? and Welfare..
.He, Is. LeRoy. Ct Mirth, fattener' Democratic'- gov-
ernor "of Flt da undo uJiw' resident of the Na-
tional Association of BrOadcastersr
The ideals to alert the Secretary of State and the ' Dlplottnath Pouch ,
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White f louse to any actions by a NATO ally that NEW .DELHI. Anew Job'Eor rishna.'Metion,
out taublic bouquets. State's policy-planning" U,N delegatg? ll spttb t, rotats sweefi g a ee-'
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chief, Walt W. Rostow, will be the man who actso' t Victory, r1nie MIM
ive p b '1V `s
t;re4Go - Despite the impasse in the jail
"featherbedding" talks. here, no coast-to-coast
strike will be called by the five o ratin unions....' -.'
Neither side wants It, and both':are sure Was-
ington, would never permit'it. The?problem now
To find some way to let the unions bargain ors,
basis of the Federal study of featherbedding
which strongly backed managotn0nt's arguments 'banae u:tx
(Nkwswr. x, March 12,)-without having union`.
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leaders lose face.
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rate its ofenllal .in. the South: This fall, the Reel :ilel
party expects to. field more than 60 candidates #oii w}d
txie's 1,06. seats in the House of Representatives. "harcll9
SENATE CLOAKROOM- Usually the spul
New England-.chivalry, Sen. Leverett Saltgnstall
is blocking a GOP colleague, Margaret .Chase
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ne, from a
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tine for the second GOP seat on the subcom- among,
mittee that watchdogs the CIA. altonstall is on' Israel to
it new.)' The reason for the Massachusetts : sen `'"' fighting
of the two Republican votes -against confirth1ng ;a
JUSTICE DEPARTM*NT-'A-key
art of .
tice's campaign to increase-Negro voter registra-
tion in the South has. been completely behind the'
scenes. Besides injunctions and other courtroom
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Wit i na other ':arms to
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t a Israelial thdoty:'Wiklr tlie~ Algorhw war
out of :tha -4y- -r at ed bd moving to'rregain
tts on #n 'the AYab W'04._
v1siAd 'and
Holland resume their taltat _ about Dut~ee New
Guinea, th 1 pr'ilbaiily Ada ?, "on` `th`e'b asis of
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