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...runs the Republican policy committee, reports to the weekly luncheon of Republican Senators on White House sessions with G.O.P. legislative leaders, and holds the Tuesday afternoon Senate-press-gallery news conference that was once Dirksen's private preserve. Maine's Margaret Chase Smith heads the Senate Republican caucus and will speak for it when it meets. Assistant Leader Bob Griffin of Michigan steps in for Scott when the minority leader is off the floor, and also takes the party headcounts; that too was a Dirksen monopoly. Scott also hopes to give Griffin four or five head-counting lieutenants...
...unionized teachers were getting nowhere in contract negotiations with the school board of CarrolIton, Mich., a blue-collar suburb of Saginaw. Some of the teachers expressed harsh opinions in the junior high school lounge that they used as a caucus room. When board negotiators repeated some of their conversations word for word during the contract talks, they could not believe it was a coincidence...
Also opposed was M.I.T. SDS-a group whose philosophy is based on that of the Worker-Student Alliance caucus of last year's SDS, Harvard SDS voted Sunday to take no official position on the NAC actions...
Wolff added that it is "quite possible" that he. perhaps with other Faculty members, will send similar letters to the Faculty before future meetings. Walzer said that circulating such a letter "is not something we [the liberal caucus] have discussed...
Four of the six members of the conservative caucus's steering committee-Wolff, Maass, Hermstein, and Peter B. Doeringer, '62, assistant professor of Economics-met on October 23 to decide on the text of the letter. Doeringer left the meeting early because of another commitment and therefore did not sign the letter...