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...Timberg '63, Winthrop co-ordinator for the campaign, out some of the problems have had in convincing to write their Congressmen. reactions," he said, "are and the ultra-democratic. Someone recoils in horror and says, --that's the aristocratic Timberg said. "The ultra-demo opposition to any literacy...
...that it was nicknamed the "No Ways and By No Means Committee." In his efforts to produce bills that would be palatable to everyone, Mills has produced several that were savory to none. He has, moreover, been aloof in his relations with other com mittee members. Cried Illinois' Demo cratic Representative Tom O'Brien on one occasion: "If you don't keep me informed, I'll take this committee away from...
Scratch & Claw. The Senate, with 64 Democrats and 36 Republicans, is likely to go along with the President on most issues, just as it did in 1961. The House is a different matter. There, though Demo crats ostensibly outnumber Republicans 263 to 174, power is actually divided be tween a conservative coalition of about 180 Republicans and Southern Democrats and about 180 members who can be expected to go along with most Administration proposals. That leaves some 70-75 "uncommitted" members among whom the Administration must scratch and claw to put together a winning margin. In 1962, collecting those uncommitted...
...export his own authoritarian Marxist-style unionism to all of Africa. But everywhere Nkrumah turns, he finds the same stubborn opponent, the West's International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, which has won affiliates in 22 African nations with the argument that the worker fares best under demo cratic unionism in a free society. Last week the two systems clashed head-on at a 38-nation conference in Casablanca to launch the All-African Trade Union Federation, pet project of Nkrumah and such pals as Guinea's Sekou Toure...
...arrangements and even read and play the notes." Nashville enjoys the advantage of having a supply of singer-composers on the spot, most of whom dream up new numbers by idly plucking a guitar until they stumble onto a tune. Armed with this "head arrangement," they then cut a "demo" (for demonstration) record to peddle to the A. & R. (for Artists and Repertory...