Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less than the combined vote for Republicans Knight and Christopher. Clair Engle, never before in a statewide election, outpolled once-popular Goodie Knight by 525,000. And even Republicans admit that many votes for Christopher will go over to Engle in November. CJ In congressional primaries, five incumbent Democratic Congressmen-and no Republicans-nailed down their seats ahead of time by winning both the Republican and Democratic nominations. So did 20 Democratic and five Republican candidates for the state legislature-a decided switch from patterns of previous primaries...
...pressing his crusade into Capitol Hill, the President breakfasted (cantaloupe, scrambled eggs and bacon, kippered herring, toast, coffee) with 15 Republican Congressmen. When the small talk amid the table clatter was over, Ike got his serious business off his chest. "These," said he, "are four simple musts." The four: Defense Department reorganization ("If war should come, and I pray that it doesn't, we would have to make improvements anyway"); a strong foreign aid bill to counter Soviet economic penetration; extension of reciprocal trade ("We all want to help domestic industries, but the only way the U.S. can survive...
With the spectre of Sputnik darkening their countenances, Congressmen and grim pedagogues have proposed a "crash program" for science in the secondary schools. But the problem is not only science; a New Republic feature article disclosed that three quarters of the students in the South--on into their freshman classes at college--couldn't identify Aaron Burr, Leon Trotsky, Martin Luther, or Aristotle ("one of Christ's disciples," wrote a college freshman). Parents, employers, and college instuctors are discovering that great percentages of youth can't spell properly, read quickly, write legibly, or express themselves comprehensibly...
...call bell. He jammed the last quarter of his tuna sandwich into his mouth, gulped his coffee and hurried up to a gallery overhanging the Democratic side of the aisle. There, Michael Anthony Stepovich, 39, Alaska's first native-born Governor, watched intently as one by one the Congressmen below called out their votes. A few minutes later, the House passed the Alaska statehood bill. Stepovich glanced at his wife, sitting a few seats away, and broke into a broad, gold-tipped smile...
Boulevards & Tunnels. At best, these emergency steps seemed halfway measures, and they were. But Quesada and clamoring Congressmen knew that they are all and perhaps more than all that the obsolescent U.S. airways traffic-control system can absorb. CAA is now in the midst of a modernization program, has expanded personnel from 19.000 to 29,000 in three years, is training hundreds of new airways traffic controllers. The CAA's fiveyear, $1 billion program is due for completion in 1962-but the U.S. airways are in need of the 1962 program right...