Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...powerful Association of American Railroads' lobby has managed to block broad federal legislation that would set minimum safety standards like those required of airlines. A regulatory bill introduced during the last session of Congress got only as far as the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, where it suffered a quiet death...
...Chicago Sun-Times circled warily, citing Roth's "generous use of the saltier nicknames for our reproductive organs and their congress with one another." In the New Republic, Critic Anatole Broyard tried arch humor, calling the book "a sort of Moby Dick of masturbation." Many newspapers and magazines fell back on tradition, using initials and dashes for familiar obscenities. Considering its usual soberness, the New York Times Book Review surprised its readers by permitting its reviewer to repeat verbatim some of Portnoy's sex-obsessed plaints...
...Congress, too, is pushing the CAB. On February 19, Senator Magnuson, Chairman of both the Senate Commerce Committee and its important Aviation Subcommittee, wrote CAB Chairman John Crooker. Magnuson asked the CAB to retain Youth Fare on "national interest" grounds--for which, conceivably, justification may be found in the 1958 Federal Aviation Act. The Magnuson letter stresses the role of Youth Fare in making possible the broad formal and informal education "so essential in our modern society." Congressman Olsen, in addition, has initiated a national campaign to flood the CAB with letters from students urging retention...
...some time in the future, only special Congressional legislation can resurrect it. Senator Percy has in fact proposed such legislation, but even if his bill in its present form would be feasible (and some Hill veterans doubt that it would be), no one knows when, if at all, Congress will enact...
...recent pressures on the conglomerate corporations have also helped reduce investor enthusiasm. Congress and several Government agencies have begun to investigate these acquisitive companies with a view toward eliminating the tax advantages that help them to make mergers (TIME, Feb. 21). A growing number of Wall Street analysts are beginning to suspect that many conglomerates have been overpriced. One of the most controversial conglomerates of all is debt-ridden Ling-Temco-Vought, which plans to reduce its controlling interest in Braniff Airlines from 67% to 55% and sell off some other assets, including all of its holdings in National...