Word: congressmen
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...Cooper, 63, a former circuit judge and Ambassador to India. From the House came Louisiana's Hale Boggs, 50, the House Democratic whip, and Michigan Republican Gerald Ford, 51, a Yale Law School graduate and an armed-services expert who is one of the most influential of all Republican Congressmen. In Allen W. Dulles, 71, former CIA chief, the Commission had an investigator well experienced in the ways of Communists, fascists and plain crackpots; in John McCloy, 69, it had a banker who distinguished himself as Harry Truman's U.S. High Commissioner for Germany and as John Kennedy's disarmament...
...with the Left. The whole experience apparently sobered both sides, and they have moved steadily closer ever since. Belaúnde meets frequently with Haya and Odría lieutenants, takes pains to buttonhole opposition Congressmen for arm-in-arm chats and friendly lunches at the presidential palace. The far-leftists who once supported Belaúnde are no longer welcome. In the past six months, his police have been jailing extremists all over the country, and his Acción Popular Party has expelled its former general secretary, Leftist Mario Villarán. Last April, when Peru...
...until he reached San Antonio did Humphrey begin to warm up. There he attracted 5,000 people, including many Mexican-Americans, to the Alamo, led them through his now familiar litany. "Most Americans," he said, "thought we should pass a civil rights bill. Most Americans, most Senators, most Congressmen thought that all citizenship should be first-class citizenship. But . . ." The crowd quickly responded ". . . not Senator Goldwater...
...Dirksen's attempt to delay enforcement of a Supreme Court ruling that both branches of every state legislature must be apportioned on a one-man, one-vote basis. Johnson does not really care how that matter is resolved-just so long as it goes away and frees Democratic Congressmen to get out and campaign for the national ticket. But the compromise, sponsored by Minnesota Democrats Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy and New York Republican Jacob Javits, was defeated 42 to 40. That left Ev Dirksen's proposal once again the pending business of the Senate...
...Obvious Issue. There, after redistricting last April, Incumbent Con- gressmen John Dingell, 38, and John Lesinski, 49, found themselves running against each other. Both men are of Polish extraction. Both are the sons of Congressmen: Dingell's father served the old 15th District from 1932 until his death in 1955; Lesinski's father represented the old 16th from 1933 until his death in 1950. The Dingells were liberals and champions of the Negroes, who comprised some 46% of the population in their longtime constituency. The Lesinskis stood fast against any Negro penetration of their own home ground...