Word: congressmen
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...Victoria. This easy informality and Frederika's gift for bowling over generals, sergeants and congressmen alike has proved a major asset to a ruling house whose royal motto is: "My power is in the love of the people." But Greece's Queen is no royal flibbertigibbet. Born to the purple as well as being married to it, she takes what she calls "this King business" with deadly seriousness, and exploits every ounce of her charm and wit to strengthen its power...
Like his fellow educators, Dr. Buell G. Gallagher, 49, president of the City College of New York, has had to contend with wild and sweeping accusations from Congressmen and others that U.S. school and college faculties are riddled with Communists. But last week, speaking to the Atlantic City assembly of the United Church Women he cautioned his colleagues not to dismiss every accusation as wild, sweeping and groundless. This, he said, is to use the same "smear" tactics they condemn in their enemies...
Misty-eyed defenders of Guatemala's party-lining government regularly point out that, after all, there are really only four Communists among the country's 64 Congressmen. But does that modest statistic truly reflect the extent of Communist penetration and power? Not by the length of Marx's beard-as two deputies to Congress demonstrated last week...
Predictably, the Dulles approach to Congressional relations frequently paid off. Assistant Secretary of State Thruston Morton still recalls with admiration a breakfast at which Dulles briefed freshmen Congressmen and Senators shortly before the MSA appropriation was to be voted on last May. "That group for the most part stood like rocks when the vote came up in the House," says Morton. "They told me afterwards, many of them, that they had no intention of supporting the Administration's foreign-aid program until they heard Dulles explain...
Lewis' sort of talk is bound to be heard more frequently as the debate over trade gets hotter. It is the kind of talk which has a particular appeal to Congressmen who think, erroneously, that their districts have no stake in the export market. Already the economic nationalists have slowed the Administration's campaign to get freer trade. If the campaign is to succeed, the Administration must speak its answer to Lewis and his fellow economic nationalists clearly and often...