Word: bille
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should all keep quiet and hope for the best." The newly aroused protesters, both on Capitol Hill and on the campuses, seem in no mood to be silenced. Charles Goodell, eager to make a liberal reputation in liberal New York before next year's election, is pressing his bill to remove all U.S. troops from South Viet Nam by December 1970. Administration strategists think the proposal should be brought to a vote soon; it would probably be defeated. Unilateral withdrawal is plainly not acceptable to a majority of Congress or of the country-at present. But proposals for bigger...
...overrule him in an intramural Army matter. Rivers then asked to see the President. Nixon ducked the confrontation, but sent his Congressional Aide Bryce Harlow to hear Rivers' plea. Rivers hardly needed to point out that he is a chief advocate of the President's ABM authorization bill that was before the House. What he did do was threaten to give three of the Berets a chance to rebut all charges in public hearings before his committee. If the courts-martial were held, he warned, they would become "the greatest mockery since the trial of Christ...
...took over the majority leadership last week during a brief absence by Mike Mansfield. He skillfully managed to restore $3.9 million in committee to an education program for Eskimo and Indian children -and was scheduled to meet in New Mexico early this week with Indian leaders to discuss the bill. He floor-managed a National Science Foundation bill that resulted in a half-billion-dollar authorization. He led a fight to kill a $45 million appropriation to extend the west front of the Capitol, a particularly fatuous project promoted by some of the Senate's leading Bourbons. Kennedy...
Lamar, it seems, is faced with two possible alternatives. He can either choose the cream of the material he has and play them exclusively, or he can play everybody. Two years ago, he selected a backfield of Bill Kelly, Pete Varney, Richie Szaro, and Tom Miller and stayed with it for the entire season. A group of superb performers, Scotty Guild, Pat Coleman, and Skip Vaccarello, were all but overlooked. Only Guild is still playing football and he still hasn't gotten the chance he deserves...
...next one shows Wild Bill Hickok being shot in the back of the head while he plays poker. A boy's father is explaining to him, "There's Wild Bill Hickok gittin' it in the back of the head...