Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY LECTURE SERIES: The last lecture in the Contemporary Philosophy Lecture Series will be given this Tuesday in Allston Burr B at 4 p.m. Henry Aiken, Professor of Philosophy at Harvard, will speak on "Prospects of Accommodation in Contemporary Philosophy...
...motion by Oklahoma's Democrat Robert Kerr to table the medicare amendment worked out by the Administration and five liberal Republicans. All 100 Senators were present - a rarity. Despite meticulous headcounting, the outcome hinged on a few unpredictable votes. The count began with Vermont Republican George Aiken's crisp anti-Administration "aye"; it had seesawed to a 13-13 tie by the time the clerk reached Douglas of Illinois. Two-thirds of the way down the list the Administration led, 37 to 31, but still ahead was the "murderers' row" of conservatives...
...inclined to be noisy and inattentive. She "needs to be very busy or she will gain superficial social superiority," was the comment on one of them, adding that "at heart she is kindly." Ceezee ended her academic career at Fermata, a very social, now defunct girls' school at Aiken, S.C., where she did best at French and Latin, worst at cooking and sewing, and admits: "I spent most of my time riding...
...convincing vote of confidence by authorizing President Kennedy to provide the hard-pressed organization with up to $100 million for its operations in the Congo and the Middle East. The 70-22 vote ended three months of argument in which Vermont's internationalist Republican Senator George Aiken led opposition to the President's request to buy 25-year bonds, insisting instead on a three-year loan. The adopted compromise (which Aiken agreed to) permits the President to do either. Hero of the occasion, from the Administration viewpoint, was none other than Republican Senate Leader Everett Dirksen, who brushed...
...Lippmann had the first word, Aiken had the last. In a bitter denouncement of the columnist from the Senate floor, Aiken said that his object was to help, not hurt, the U.N. "By making false statements and accusations," said the Senator, addressing himself directly to Lippmann, "you and people who act like you are giving the old-fashioned isolationists the most potent ammunition they have had in the last two decades...