Word: accessions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another of his ambitions in the field of sound is to set up a freshman record library under the supervision of the Lamont staff, since freshmen have no access to House musical libraries. Already under way, although not as popular as he had hoped, are Friday symphony hours in the fifth level Forum Room. Here an FM radio is available each Friday afternoon for listening to the efforts of Boston's highly-touted symphony. Groups of listeners have been small to date, but McNiff intends to continue the practice with a little more publicity...
...Capitol Hill, Nixon is a presidential agent, not a congressional leader. His fellow Californian, William Knowland, the Senate Majority leader, has immediate access to the President when he wants it, so Nixon would never dream of telling Knowland, "This is what the President wants." Knowland must decide what bills the Senate will take up; Nixon can only advise the President on what to ask for. Knowland must worry about every Administration program; Nixon leaves many of them to White House liaison men. Another difference: Knowland may, on occasion, disagree publicly with the President; Nixon submerges his views if they conflict...
This robust independence (or egocentric anarchy) is tempered by the influence of the presidency acting on the people-not through a party machine, but more directly through the President's access to press, radio and TV. The voters reached by the President exercise an influence on Congressmen. In this way, a President can exert almost as much (or as little) leverage on opposition Congressmen as on members of his own party. As election day approaches, a popular President's influence on Congressmen can be expected to increase considerably...
...Leonard E. Mins thoughtfully provided newsmen with a typewritten translation of Latin quotations which he read to McCarthy from a black, loose-leaf notebook. Mins, described by McCarthy as a veteran Communist writer who had access to classified radar information in 1943, was asked if he had ever engaged in espionage for Russia. He answered: "Nemini delatorum fides abrogata."* Then he added wryly: "My answer also includes a citation from the Fifth Amendment." McCarthy, who knows a good performer when he sees one, was almost tolerant of Mins...
Everest, therefore, wears through almost a third of its 71 minutes before the expedition is safely stowed in its base camp at 18,000 ft. in the western cwm (a Welsh word that rhymes with doom), the colossal glacial ditch by which access to the peak is possible. From there to the summit is a lung-bursting matter of 46 days, with the camera dogging along for all but the last few thousand feet of the way. It sees some awesome things-avalanches down the vast chute of the cwm, in which ice blocks the size of a ten-story...