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Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and House Speaker Carl Albert jointly declared that "Congress does not 'perform' at the behest of this President or any President. The Congress acts in accord with its independent judgment of what is best for the nation and the people. There are no apologies to be made for this Congress. It has done, it is doing, and it will continue to do the people's business." Returning to the Senate seven months after being shot in a holdup, John Stennis of Mississippi defended Congress. He said that he had heard that Senators...
...York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein conductor; Columbia, $5.98). The familiar Surprise, preceded by its stately, less frequently played older sister (by a month: both are from 1792, part of the series of twelve so-called "Salomon" symphonies written by Haydn during his sojourns in London at the behest of Impresario Johann Peter Salomon). Bernstein is at his best in this music, bringing to it the same strength, drama, wit and control he invariably applies to the last symphonies of Mozart...
...dues went to radical groups, including S.N.C.C. or S.D.S. In its biggest court victory, the foundation helped win a $342,000 award from the Communications Workers Union for Dale Richardson, a former employee of Western Electric in Omaha. Richardson claimed that he was fired at the union's behest after he asked to see who paid the bill for the local president's wife when she accompanied her husband on a business trip to New Orleans...
That official optimism was in large part responsible for one of Bunker's most serious misestimates during his Saigon years. In 1971 he urged Thieu, at Washington's behest, to hold free, honest elections that would legitimize the Vietnamese President in the eyes of the world. To bring this about, genuine opponents were needed. To Bunker's embarrassment, Thieu eventually ran uncontested-and the elections were duly derided in the U.S. as a sham...
...dictatorial Lon Nol regime reorganized itself last week, reportedly at the behest of the United States. The reorganization is supposed to pave the way for negotiations with the liberation armies who have surrounded the capital of Phnom Penh and threatened the survival of the Cambodian dictatorship...