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...scandal (see THE LAW). In the course of ten years on the State Supreme Court, Democrat Klein, 61, had earned a sound judicial reputation, and as frequently happens in New York, Tammany Boss J. Raymond ("the Fox") Jones and his Republican counterpart agreed to make the judicial nomination bipartisan. Such pacts were originally justified by the argument that they freed judgeships from domination by one party or party boss. On a practical basis, they also gave both parties a share of the patronage...
...histories of secretive bureaucracy. The subcommittee discovered, for instance, that a bow-and-arrow weapon devised by a Pentagon civilian employee during World War II had proved useless-but by 1958 was still classed as a military secret. Moss forced many agencies to discard meaningless security precautions and marshaled bipartisan support for revision of the 1946 law that permits federal officials to clam up merely by decreeing that disclosure of data is not "in the public interest...
...speak more forthrightly prompted G.O.P. Senate Leader Everett M. Dirksen and House Leader Gerald Ford to ask last week: "Mr. President, what can we believe?" With unusual asperity, Dirksen faulted Johnson for failing to be "candid or consistently credible" on Viet Nam. What is needed, he said, is a bipartisan committee to examine U.S. policy so that Republicans "will be better able to provide that unqualified support so necessary to the winning of a swift, secure and honorable peace." In fact, virtually all Americans might be convinced of that necessity if they were kept honestly apprised not only...
Encouraged nonetheless by McNamara's "concrete proposal," South Carolina Democrat L. Mendel Rivers, House Armed Services Committee chairman, called a committee session to hear Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey's opinions on current draft procedures. Wisconsin Democratic Senator Gaylord Nelson suggested that a bipartisan committee begin a study of the system...
Hughes gamely announced that he would try instead to introduce a sales tax, the remedy advocated by Wayne Dumont, his Republican rival for the governorship. "That," Hughes admitted, "would have to be a bipartisan effort." If that also fails, the nation's most heavily industrialized state will be unable to provide college space for several thousand new high school graduates or treat more than 1,000 retarded children now awaiting state care. It will have to defer badly needed highway construction, and deny the financial aid that its two major railroads need to maintain commuter service...