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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Best demonstration of the new mood came last week at a pair of presidential breakfasts, one with 13 Senators, the other with 17 Representatives. At the Senate session, Ike sat-fittingly-with Illinois' conservative Everett Dirksen on his right and Vermont's liberal George Aiken on his left. George Aiken praised the President's record, but said wistfully: "If the Democrats had that record, they could elect the next ten Presidents on it. The Democrats are masters of strategy...
...Best Time." At the breakfast with the Representatives, the Republicans discussed strategy for dealing with what seems likely to be the first major piece of legislation to be passed by the Democratic 86th Congress: a $575 million airport construction bill, providing for federal spending on such items as terminals and waiting rooms, as compared to the austere $200 million Administration program...
...have been to the White House before," said one of the Congressmen later, "but this was the best time. We actually had an interchange of ideas, and we were in agreement." Added a second: "It gave us some mutual understanding...
...Hydrant. This chatter was only a way of passing the time, for the guests had come for something more important than Scotch and Spinoza. They had come to meet 32-year-old Allen Ginsberg of Paterson, N.J., author of a celebrated, chock-full catalogue called Howl (I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked), recognized leader of the pack of oddballs (TIME, June 9) who celebrate booze, dope, sex and despair and who go by the name of Beatniks...
Thailand. The open seizure of power by Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat last October has had in Thailand much the same revivifying effect as Ne Win's takeover in Burma. Sarit, who is not in the best of health, seems to have gone through a moral regeneration. He has ordered the end of legalized opium dens; closed 27 Communist or pro-Communist newspapers and magazines; cracked down on hoodlum-run labor unions as well as three shakedown organizations formerly run by the police, and in a final burst of virtue ordered nightclubs to close at midnight. There was a time...