Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...corporate income taxes that Congress has not yet passed-and, judging from its mood, is not about to approve. Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, where the bill has been bottled up for nearly six months, was not even present for the President's address. Neither were some 250 of the 535 members of the House and Senate...
...morning after the State of the Union address, ranking members of the Senate majority who make up the Democratic Policy Committee gathered for a private meeting. "It was the damnedest thing," one participant remarked afterward. "Not a single word was said about the President's speech...
...primitive tribes, must have its bit of ritual prior to the bloodletting. Loyalist Democrats, in their wisdom, found the President's speech "wise"; doubting Democrats like Wilbur Mills bespoke their position with silence; the Republicans tsk-tsked that the President had merely delivered a state-of-the-campaign address. Other non-developments materialized on cue. On opening day, the Senate bickered over whether to admit to the record an antiwar petition by Jeanette Rankin, 87, a former Congresswoman from Montana, who led 3,200 protesting women to the snowy foot of Capitol Hill. It took a roll-call vote...
...rector of Edinburgh University, Author-Iconoclast Malcolm Muggeridge, 64, is supposed to act as intermediary between students and administration. Last week, in his annual address from the pulpit of St. Giles's Cathedral, the High Kirk of Edinburgh, the Mugger reaffirmed his sympathies with the rebellious ways of youth, "up to and including blowing up this magnificent edifice." The point at which he lost touch, however, was the demand that birth-control pills be handed out at the university's medical dispensary. That sort of request, said Muggeridge, "raised in me not so much disapproval as contempt...
First off, she took to the streets, distributing cards printed with her name and hotel address to every policeman she saw. She also made a tour of precinct stations, explaining to all who would listen that she would pay $10 to $15 for each cape delivered to her hotel. When she caught wind of an anti-American rally outside the U.S. embassy, she sensed a windfall. She raced to the scene, handed out her cards-and by evening some 50 flics had marched into the hotel, capes in hand. The concierge collaborated willingly. "Whenever I was out and another batch...