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...House Office Building. ¶ More than half (47) of the House's big freshman class trooped into the Library of Congress' Coolidge Auditorium to attend a new institution: a school for Congressmen, bipartisan brainchild of such considerate upperclassmen as Maine's Democrat Frank Coffin and New Jersey's Republican Peter Frelinghuysen. In the first class, frosh heard New York Timesman James ("Scotty") Reston tell them how to make news. Senator Hugh Scott, Pennsylvania Republican, and Senator Eugene McCarthy, Minnesota Democrat, both lately risen from the Lower House to the Continuing Body, rubbed in a delicate point...
Layers of Fat. Ralph Cordiner has always made good use of his time. He was born in 1900 on his father's 1,280-acre wheat farm near Walla Walla, Wash., just eight years after a genial Quaker named Charles A. Coffin merged two electrical firms to found General Electric. Cordiner went to small Whitman College, where he worked his way through school by doing odd jobs and selling wooden-paddle washing machines for the Pacific Power & Light Co. He went to work for Pacific Power after graduation, became such a star salesman that he was soon lured away...
...their first study mission to Canada for the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee last May, Representatives Brooks Hays of Arkansas and Frank M. Coffin of Maine found a disturbing strain in the traditionally good relations between the U.S. and Canada. Last week Democrats Hays and Coffin, who traveled 7,000 miles talking to Americans and Canadians, produced a more detailed report. Conclusion: while relations have "improved" since spring in the sense that both nations are aware of their differences, that awareness has led to "the discovery of an ever-enlarging number of problems...
Some Hays-Coffin observations and recommendations...
...Hays and Coffin summed up: "Each problem exists in the context of an intense Canadian desire for recognition of its separate national identity. An apparent attitude of bland indifference by the U.S. has been a source of greater irritation than the economic policies themselves...