Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...somnolence about the debate. In the first couple of days, the biggest attraction was Actress Marlene Dietrich, who turned up for a while in the gallery. Rhode Island Democrat John Pastore, chairman of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, wasted a fiery speech on a near-empty chamber. Pastore passionately flung open his blue blazer, clapped his hand over his chest and declared: "I say to those who have doubts about the treaty that I want them to open their hearts and look into their consciences. I want them to realize what they might be doing. If by their vote they...
...stable middle class is more and more influential. Each year, as the economic milestones flick by, the country takes a festive day off to hear the President report on just how far it has come; last week President Adolfo Lopez Mateos rode through crowd-jammed streets to the Chamber of Deputies to deliver his fifth annual state of the union message. Since he is constitutionally barred from succeeding himself, it was also his last before the presidential elections next July, and the nationally televised speech turned out to be a long (4 hr. 25 min.) summing...
...Chamber of Commerce presidents are expected to speak out against big government and careless spending, but Delaware Banker Edwin P. Neilan, 57, who took office last May for a one-year term, is turning out to be more outspoken-and articulate-than most. At the National Press Club in Washington last month, Neilan said that the U.S. has its own scandal to match Britain's Christine Keeler case: a "se duction by subsidy" in which more and more Congressmen are turning into bagmen for constituents, bringing home pork barrel programs and federal handouts in return for votes...
Corpus Christi Chamber of Commerce...
...East, has the most exciting modern dance group in America. Duke Ellington's band leaves this week for a 14-week tour of the Middle East-at just the season when it might be drawing its biggest audiences at home. Africa is getting two excellent chamber groups, the Dorian Quintet and the Claremont Quartet-a visit that may help dispel the notion that the U.S. considers Africa a continent of nothing but natural-born jazz lovers. Choirs from five colleges and universities and the University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra are going abroad, and next spring Latin America will...