Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Milwaukee, Beaver Ridge Farms, Oak Brook, Royal Palm. Solo Cup and Tulsa-Aiken thwack it out in the finals of the national polo tournament...
...most prominent members of the class, Conrad Aiken, was expected to arrive today. Actor-director Howard Lindsay, another famous member, did not attend this year...
...advocate, Wisconsin's Republican Alexander Wiley, observed: "This matter of foreign aid will have to be resold to the American people." Oregon's Wayne Morse put it more bluntly: "I don't think the American economy can stand this program." And Vermont's Republican George Aiken was downright unkind: "I see no sign that they [State Department officials] are particularly qualified to handle huge sums of money. In fact, I would say they are pretty thoroughly demoralized down at State right...
...Kennedy Administration for claiming to have halted the recession, New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating dryly told his colleagues: "In the same category, I praise the President for having the sun shine and the flowers bloom and the spring season emerge upon us." Vermont Republican George Aiken leaped to his feet, protested: "The Senator gives the President altogether too much credit. The spring season did not emerge in time." Agreed Keating: "It is a little late...
...This bill does not have a snowball's chance in hell," wailed a House Democratic leader. Echoed Vermont's George Aiken, senior Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee: "If the Administration persists on this plan, there will be no bill this year." Work was still going on at the committee level in Congress last week, but Democrats and Republicans in both branches of Congress were already predicting a smashing defeat for one of President Kennedy's major items of legislation: a costly, catchall farm bill...