Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Visions of Blame. In order to drama tize the vision of an obstructionist Congress, he hoped to get a favorable Senate vote on medicare, then blame the well-known coalition of Republicans and con servative Democrats in the House for kill ing it. He had good reason to believe that he could: the 64-36 Democratic majority in the Senate usually makes that body amenable. With that in mind, the Presi dent permitted his Senate leaders to attach a modified form of the King-Anderson medicare bill as an amendment to an unre lated welfare bill. This had the advantage...
...Angeles has become the U.S.'s second theatrical city, with more than 40 active theaters in operation. Many are occupied by road companies doing late successes from Broadway. Under the Yum-Yum Tree has been running in L.A. for 46 weeks. Also last week the ex-con could see Critic's Choice, The Best Man, Man in the Dog Suit, Everybody Loves Opal, Venus Observed. Off Broadway has been generously represented with The Blacks, The Connection, The Zoo Story...
There a friend of Don Juan's got a cable from Messina, Sicily, signed "Con-de Barcelona" (one of his titles), saying he would be along four days hence. When he arrived, Prendergast found him wearing a sailor's blue dungarees, faded blue canvas sneakers and "for reasons I'll never know, only one sock. I like the man tremendously...
Lodge, who had been a candidate for Governor, decided to try for the Senate instead - but refused to get out and work for it. Said he to a friend before the con vention: "I just can't go out and shake Lodge, people's and hands I'd and like say your 'I'm vote.' It John Davis would be insulting to them. They know who I am." Far from aloof was Horace Seely-Brown Jr., 54, a hulking, aggressive six-term Congressman from Connecticut's agricultural eastern Second District. Seely-Brown...
...Hanfstaengl incident slipped ominously into the past, the Corporation voted to resume Lowell House's Sunday afternoon bell-ringings, and the Debating Council decided to stage a mock trial of Adolph Hitler. A bench of five professors, includling Raphael Demos and Arthur N. Holcombe, heard undergraduates argue pro and con on the German leader and then found him guilty on two out of four charged counts. Charles Feibleman '37 was one of the prosecutors, while two more of his classmates, Thomas H. Quinn '37 and Arthur G. Sullivan '37, supported Chancellor Hitler's defense. Quinn, Sullivan, and company were unable...