Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have mutual security agreements with 42 countries, and if we were called upon to honor several of them at once, we'd be in a pretty precarious situation," declares Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. The G.O.P.'s George Aiken complains: "We're trying to police the world...
...battle against the Communists should go better. In addition, Rusk noted that there are no present U.S. plans for escalating the war into North Viet Nam, nor is there any thought of the U.S.'s withdrawing from the fight. "An un inspired forenoon," grumped Vermont Republican George Aiken about the session...
...foreign-aid bill passed by the House does not require a disclaimer. But the $3.3 billion Senate version does. And the 13-man conference committee trying to reach a compromise includes Sen. George D. Aiken (R-Vt.), who proposed the disclaimer last Tuesday...
...their original readings for the Library of Congress. The album's theme, Williams explains, is suffering and social involvement-"the passion of modern poetry"-rather than personal love. The selection is personal, sometimes questionable, but stellar nonetheless. It includes T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell, W. H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, Robert Graves and Archibald MacLeish, plus many others whose voices will not be heard again, notably William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Theodore Roethke, E. E. Cummings. Robert Frost sounds as homey as a neighbor chatting in the kitchen: Robinson Jeffers, proclaiming that violence is "the bloody sire...
...voted Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken...