Word: congress
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...committee hearings last summer on his dealings with Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams (TIME, June 23, 1958 et seq.). He would refuse to tell the Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight about cash withdrawals of $104,973 from two of his tangled companies on the ground that the questions were not pertinent. Congress slapped him with a contempt charge...
Coming soon: Judge Morris' decision on whether Goldfine may purge himself by answering the unanswered questions, or whether he will be sentenced (maximum: a year in jail and a $1,000 fine) for contempt of Congress...
...grasslands in great herds, but since World War II an estimated 100,000 have been captured and cut up into dog food. Today, the Interior Department estimates, no more than 20,000 wild horses still graze on the lone prairies. Last week the wild horses had their day in Congress...
...boom without the big spending promised by the liberals in November, and 2) the failure of the attempts of Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler and the old-line liberals to force the congressional Democrats into a free-spending collision with Ike. Such a collision course, the liberals in Congress agree, would be foolish and unrealistic. Says one Senate liberal: "The Democratic National Committee is like a government in exile. They keep operating the same way even though they are out of power, but meantime the country changes...
Quantitative to Qualitative. While most liberals are clearer, at this point, about what they are not than about what they are, some are giving deep thought to the future. A chorus of liberal ayes greeted Columnist Walter Lippmann's recent definition of the mission of the Democratic Congress: "It would be to prepare public opinion for the future, which is not yet here but is near at hand. It would be to prepare public opinion for the decade of the '60s, which, assuming that there is no war, is bound to be an era of great innovation...