Word: counting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congressman to make the same mistake twice. Earlier this month, when the House of Representatives dealt its Ways and Means Committee chairman-and the Johnson Administration-a humil iating defeat by voting down a routine bill to raise the Federal debt limit, Mills determined to make his own nose count rather than rely on the arithmetic of White House lobbyists. "I'm not moving," Mills vowed to a friend, "until I've got the votes." Last week Mills moved, winning passage of a slightly amended version of the original measure by the ready, mistake-proof margin...
...indictment was not greatly softened by the dismissal, 51 to 45, of a lesser count: that Dodd had double-billed both the Government and private groups for some $1,700 in travel expenses. Many Senators regarded that sum as picayune in comparison with the misappropriated campaign funds. Many others thought that he should have the benefit of the doubt on his contention that the double-billing was the result of sloppy bookkeeping, not dishonesty. The vote may also have been influenced by the contention of Dodd's self-appointed "defender," Louisiana's Russell Long, that if Tom Dodd...
...Senatorial Heep." On the main count there was never much doubt, and Long's marathon defense served only to turn a painful exercise into an unseemly ordeal that ended by depriving Dodd of even the last vestige of dignity. Often sentimental, Dodd eventually pleaded his cause with the mawkishness of a white-haired Uriah Heep. "How many times do you want to hang me?" he asked his colleagues. "If you want to do it, be done with it-be done with it! Do away with me, and that will be the end! But in the twilight of my life...
...Middlebury College, proposed a regional economic program. But no long-range plan can work, as Johnson conceded at a weekend fund-raising dinner in Austin, unless each nation in the area accepts "the right of its neighbors to stable and secure existence." Only then, he added, can they "count upon the friendly help of the United States." Said the President earlier in the week: "To day in the Middle East-as in Viet Nam and America-we are faced with a task of rebuilding, of putting together a human equation, where men can live as the prophet Micah said...
Married. Princess Margrethe of Denmark, 27, eldest daughter of Denmark's King Frederik IX and heir to the throne; and Count Henri de Monpezat, 32, handsome French diplomat; in a royalty-studded ceremony in Copenhagen's ancient Holmens Church...