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...Bent on clearing a road for the treaty in the Senate, Kennedy tried to get two influential Midwestern Republicans, Iowa's Hickenlooper and Illinois' Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, to join the U.S. delegation to Moscow. But both Dirksen and Hickenlooper decided to. stay home. The Republican Senators Kennedy tapped instead were two fellow New Englanders, Aiken and Massachusetts' Leverett Saltonstall, who are high-ranking members of important Senate committees but who wield little influence among Midwestern Republicans. To make Dirksen's absence seem less conspicuous, Kennedy decided to leave behind the Democratic opposite number, Majority Leader...
...year-old accountant was dying of longstanding kidney disease when he went into Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in January of 1962. Doctors used heroic measures, but it looked like a losing battle. Then another Brigham patient died after a heart operation. The hospital's famous team of kidney-transplant pioneers (TIME, May 3) rushed into action...
...Where does Goldwater stand on civil rights? And why the confusion and doubt about where he stands? The confusion arises largely because Goldwater has spoken out on civil rights from two distinct viewpoints -as a man who sympathizes with the Negroes' demands for equality and as a conservative bent on conserving constitutional government...
...Bent Basement. The Rent Act of 1957 virtually lifted all controls and enabled Rachman to shoehorn tenants into his flats at whatever prices the traffic would bear. He also showed talent for "bending the basement," that is, converting cellar space into cribs for prostitutes or into nightclubs. The 1959 Street Offences Act, which drove prostitutes off London pavements, brought him another windfall, for the girls would pay more for rooms than even the desperate West Indians. In one house, seven prostitutes were charged $10 per day, payable every day at noon, or $25,000 annually, for a house valued...
Suddenly the desks of casting directors seem awash with the names of celebrities' kids bent on making their own names. Some of them have genuine talent, some are riding on a parental reputation built 30 years ago. But because of who their mothers or daddies were, all of them get a hearing-and some may even be heard from. Among the more promising...