Word: congressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this year, grass-roots revolts have shelved Senators Frank Lausche of Ohio and Thomas Kuchel of California. Now a similar syndrome threatens Oklahoma Senator Mike Monroney, 66, a 30-year Capitol Hill veteran and his state's senior member of Congress...
...terms in the House and three in the Senate have made Monroney a fixture, but one not really plugged into the sockets of power. A populist liberal of impeccable reputation, Monroney has chosen to be an expert rather than a force. His efforts to reorganize Congress have largely gone by the board. He is chairman of the Senate's Post Of fice and Civil Service Committee and is known as "Mr. Aviation" because of his continued-and unheeded-warn ings about America's crowded sky. Intelligent and hardworking, he is the quiet antithesis of Oklahoma's flamboyant...
Thousands of foreign tourists were caught in Czechoslovakia when the Russians came. Among them were 4,000 geologists attending the International Geological Congress. The Russian delegates were so embarrassed by the invasion that they removed their name tags. The U.S. embassy hired 20 buses to help transport some 1,500 stranded Americans, including onetime Film Star Shirley Temple Black and TV Actor Robert (U.N.C.L.E.) Vaughn, to West Germany and Austria. Tourists streamed out of the country in their cars, often driving past menacing Soviet tanks parked at lonely countryside junctions with their guns pointed at the road. The Czechoslovaks...
...behavior of the leading Prague progressives, describing Dubcek as a "betrayer of Communist ideals." Pravda was particularly severe in condemning the plans for a party purge; it spoke of "an atmosphere of real pogrom and moral execution." After the takeover, Tass even claimed that the secret party congress in Prague was a reactionary attempt to take over the government?a feat that was hardly possible while So. viet tanks were in the streets. To prevent the real story from reaching their own people, the Russians began to jam the Voice of America broadcasts for the first time in five years...
Still, the occasion for the Pope's visit -the 39th International Eucharistic Congress-was oddly anachronistic in a day when a large and militant part of the Roman Catholic Church is turning away from pomp and tradition. The Eucharistic Congress, conceived in the late 19th century by a devout French grande dame, Marie Marthe Tamisier, is a liturgical spectacular that reaffirms the otherworldly glories of the faith. The event particularly venerates the Eucharist, the ritual in which, according to traditional Catholic doctrine, bread and wine are transubstantiated into the body and blood of Christ. With its emphasis on ceremony...