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...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...
...Aiken," intoned the tally clerk...
...voted Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken...
...Aiken (Vt.) Javits (N.Y.) Allott (Colo.) Keating (N.Y.) Beall (Md.) Miller (Iowa) Bennett (Utah) Kuchel (Calif.) Boggs (Del.) Morton (Ky.) Carlson (Kans.) Mundt (S.Dak.) Case (N.J.) Pearson (Kans.) Cooper (Ky.) Prouty (Vt.) Dirksen (III.) Saltonstall (Mass.) Fong (Hawaii) Scott...
...G.O.P. STRATEGY. "The key is Dirksen," says Mansfield, "with Hick-enlooper and Aiken." Besides Dirksen, he was referring to Iowa's Bourke Hickenlooper as a Midwesterner with influence over other rural conservatives, and Vermont's George Aiken as a leader of Northeastern moderates. Among them, these three could almost certainly swing enough Republican votes to put cloture across. Dirksen is in a tough spot. Though he was his old, congenial self last week, traipsing up to the press galleries and sitting crosslegged on a table to chat with newsmen, he is under heavy fire from civil rights groups...