Word: democratic
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...Face on the Screen. Early last week that coalition was busted wide open-and the unlikely Congressman who started the smashing was Roland V. Libonati, 62, a pudgy little machine Democrat from Chicago. Elected to the House in 1957, "Lib" Libonati has been known only for his devotion to the bidding of Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley and as a master of the malapropism-he once welcomed autumn as the time when "the moss is on the pumpkin." Gingerly handling the prickly political pear that the civil rights bill had become, Manny Celler needed someone to make the necessary...
...this year. Heading for the Nov. 5 general election, Republican Rubel Phillips, 38, a former Democrat who was a state public service commissioner, is putting up a strong enough fight to have Democrats, for the first time in decades, showing concern...
...apparent willingness to get a bill at any price, Dillon drew an angry rebuke from liberal Illinois Democrat Paul H. Douglas: "By not having a virile stance in favor of tax reform, you have permitted the reform provisions to be gutted." There was also a partisan slap from Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore, a key member of the Finance Committee (see box), who accused Republican Dillon of "subverting the economic liberal policies of the Democratic party at the Washington level." Added Gore: "When the country votes conservative it votes Republican. I don't know...
...bill was an expanded version of the Administration's own civil rights package. The Administration measure had been taken in hand by Judiciary Committee Chairman Emanuel Celler, a vociferously civil righteous Brooklyn Democrat. Also sitting as chairman of a civil rights subcommittee, Celler made one personal addition after another to the Administration bill. His version expanded the public accommodations section to forbid discrimination by any business operating under state or local "authorization, permission or license." It authorized the Attorney General to intervene and bring suit on behalf of any individual to prevent the denial of any constitutional right...
Despite the confusion, the airlines' response greatly strengthened Halaby's position before Oklahoma Democrat Mike Monroney's aviation subcommittee, and brightened hopes that the Senate would quickly pass the $60 million appropriation recently approved by the House. After passage, the technical task of getting the U.S. supersonic program off the ground will fall to Halaby's hard-nosed deputy, Gordon Bain, 54, a former vice president of Slick and Northwest airlines. Under Bain, the FAA will select an airframe company and enginemaker to build a supersonic transport, then oversee the project until the planes are certified...