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...Senate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey swore in the only new mem ber: Virginia Democrat Harry Flood Byrd Jr., 51, a ringer for his famous father, who resigned in November be cause of ill health, after 32 years in of fice. "Little Harry," as he is called back home in Winchester, where he is editor of the Winchester Star (circ. 13,-000), took his father's old front-row desk for the first day, will eventually move to a back-of-the-chamber spot reserved for new members. On the House side, two new members also took the oath: Ohio...
...Named for Swiss Theologian Thomas Lüber (1524-83), known also as Erastus, who attacked the theocratic views of Calvinism...
...abolishing the separate electoral rolls for Greek and Turkish Cypriots, which effectively barred the Turkish community from the seats it had held in the House of Representatives. Turk ish Cypriot Representatives, who have not been attending meetings for fear of their lives, tried to re-enter the cham ber but were refused admittance unless they would agree to relinquish the veto that they hold over legislation under the constitution. When Turkey angrily placed the matter before the U.N., Ankara's NATO partners reaffirmed their desire for peace on the island, but failed to step in energetically on Turkey...
Conservative M.P.s did not gloat over Labor's abrupt and embarrassing turnabout. Colored residents in Britain num ber less than 1% of the population, and it is apparently the intent of both parties to keep it that way. In noting the absence of debate on the White Paper, the Times argued that many M.P.s "may feel privately that public feeling on racial questions has now reached the point at which it might be a preponderant, if not decisive, issue at the next election." To hold on to political power, Labor seems to have concluded that its hot words...
...Name tags are a big help," one mem- ber of '40 said at a Winthrop House luncheon. "I've come back, of course, to see all my old friends." One alumnus had come to the Reunion from Hawaii, another from East Africa--both attracted by the "aura of the 25th." Others said they wanted to express their affection for their old friend and classmate, John F. Kennedy, who lived in Winthrop House...