Word: bipartisanism
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Died. Perle Mesta, 85, capital society's "hostess with the mostes' "; of an apparent heart attack; in Oklahoma City. Famed as "Two-Party Perle" for her bipartisan hospitality, Mesta assembled Senators and Congressmen, celebrities, showpeople and occasionally Presidents for elaborately calibrated soirees over three decades. Perle's gaiety, feigned naughtiness and passion for scandalous secrets charmed a generation of guests. Heiress to fortunes from her father and her husband, a Pittsburgh steel magnate, she mastered machine-tool manufacturing, invested in cattle ranching, campaigned for an equal-rights amendment for women in the 1930s, and buttonholed Southwestern...
...added, "The President knows that he's said his piece; he did his best. If the Democrats won't do it, they won't do it." In fact, however, a considerable number of Republicans also oppose further aid; the developing majority against it will probably be bipartisan...
...President's denunciation of Arab discrimination and the Church hearing, both of which took place on Ashland Chemical Co., Bendix Field Engineering Corp., Dresser Industries Inc. and International School Services. the same day, were clearly intended as a signal of bipartisan U.S. concern about the boycott. In Cairo, where the Arab boycott committee is currently holding its semiannual review of the blacklist, Mohammed Mahgoub, commissioner general of the boycott office, defended the list as "a legitimate means of legitimate self-defense." At the boycott committee's opening session last week, Mahgoub insisted that companies are listed only...
...week at a $175-a-plate dinner in Manhattan in honor of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. The President chided Congress for opposing his foreign policy as well as his economic program. He drew on another historical figure, Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg, to emphasize the need for a bipartisan foreign policy. A onetime Republican isolationist, Vandenberg persuaded members of his own party to support Truman's interventionist policy. "I do not expect 535 reincarnations of Senator Vandenberg," said Ford. "But I challenge the Senate and the House to give me the same consideration that Vandenberg sought and got for President...
...concern over unemployment, Congress was prepared to brush aside Ford's objections to an even larger federal deficit. Spending programs began to be cranked up. A bipartisan group of ten Senators, including Hugh Scott, introduced a bill to expand public service employment by 1 million jobs, at an annual cost of about $7.8 billion. In a joint statement, two of the cosponsors, G.O.P. Senator Jacob Javits and Democrat Harrison Williams, declared: "The nation is moving at alarming speed toward Depression-like levels of unemployment in terms of absolute numbers-the truly human measure." By that they mean that given...