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House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills, ordinarily a calm, slow-going Arkansan, got the word during hearings on reciprocal trade, rushed from the room, set up a telephone command post in a nearby office, alerted Speaker Sam Rayburn, huddled with other Democratic leaders, issued urgent orders for committee staffers to whip up a Democratic tax-cut bill the moment the White House moved. No matter what chips the Republican Administration threw onto the table against recession, the Democratic...
...Arkansan Fulbright cried, is "fat and immobile," apparently forgetting Little Rock's sinewy revolt against the desegregation order of the Supreme Court. And although he did not doubt that the U.S. would meet the challenges of missiles and satellites, he thought that the real solution lay in "a true revival of learning . . . We should reform our basic ideas about elementary and secondary education. We must emphasize the rigorous training of the intellect rather than the gentle cultivation of the personality, which has been so popular in recent years . . . Courses in life adjustment and coed cooking will...
...preoccupation with defense might take off the heat. Labor would cheerfully accept public reports on all pension and welfare funds (including employer-managed funds), would like legislation to stop right there if public opinion would stand for it. Still to come: the final report and recommendations of Arkansan John McClellan's Senate investigating subcommittee, which may well be tougher than Ike's proposals, may well step up the heat...
Center of the storm was a 42-year-old Arkansan, Dr. Neil Holland Sullenberger, 1939 graduate of the University of Arkansas' School of Medicine, who began to specialize in surgery as soon as he finished his Army stint. He won certification by the American Board of Surgery, and recognition as a skilled and sometimes daring operator. But Dr. Sullenberger had a knack for not getting along with people. In 1950 he was asked to leave the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor after an assault-and-battery charge against him (the verdict: not guilty). That same year...
Hays is undoubtedly the Arkansan closest to Eisenhower because of his long-standing friendship with Sherman Adams, and his appeal for the removal of the Regular Army may be considered very seriously by Eisenhower...