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Aiken, Vt. Allott, Colo. Beall, Md. Boggs, Del. Carlson, Kans. Case, N.J. Cooper, Ky. Cotton, N.H. Dirksen, III. Dominick, Colo. Fong, Hawaii Hickenlooper, Iowa Hruska...
FLATT AND SCRUGGS AT CARNEGIE HALL (Columbia). Flatt, the Ev Dirksen of country talkin', and Scruggs, the Paganini of the five-string banjo, in further fruitful collaboration-this time before a downhome crowd up North...
With the Tower-Long proposal drawing unexpected support from several pro-treaty Democrats, Minority Leader Everett Dirksen rose to attack it. Dramatically flourishing the letter that President Kennedy had written...
Mansfield during the debate, Dirksen reminded his colleagues of its "solemn and unequivocal assurance" that "the treaty in no way limits the authority of the Commander in Chief to use nuclear weapons for the defense of the U.S. and its allies." In the letter, Kennedy also promised that the U.S. would seek to minimize the risks involved in the treaty by continuing underground tests, maintaining weapons research labs, expanding detection facilities and remaining ready to resume atmospheric testing on short notice. The Tower-Long proposal was tabled, 61 to 33, and the way was clear for ratification...
...Contrary to Senator Dirksen's statement in his Senate test ban treaty speech [Sept. 20], Edmund Burke was never Prime Minister of Britain. Though a brilliant orator and M.P., the closest he ever came to being even a Cabinet member was paymaster of the forces in the Rockingham Ministry...