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...leadership indicated that it might abandon its longstanding opposition and accept an Administration bill banning mailorder sales of all guns or even a stronger version by Tydings requiring gun owners to obtain licenses and register their weapons. "Let the testimony show the need," declared Senate G.O.P. Leader Everett M. Dirksen, "and I'll be Johnny-on-the-spot in supporting...
...been in the congressional works for months before King's assassination. Passed by the House last summer as a comparatively toothless measure to protect civil rights workers, the measure acquired its incisors in the Senate, where a Republican-Democratic liberal coalition, improbably abetted by Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, pushed through the open-housing provision and sent the much expanded package back across Capitol Hill to the House...
...Presidential Candidate Alf Landon declared: "I do not recall a more momentous event of this kind in our entire history." Barry Goldwater had a more down-to-earth reaction. "I went and had another drink," he said. "I just couldn't believe my ears." Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen bitterly noted that the "personal and sometimes ugly" criticism of the President by his fellow Democrats helped drive him to his decision. Said Dirksen: "The harpies of the shore shall pluck the eagle...
...Senator Everett Dirksen, 72, in Walter Reed Hospital with severe bruises after he fell from his dining room table while attempting to replace a light bulb; Patrick Lyndon Nugent, nine months, running a fever of 104°, high enough to bring a doctor to the White House; Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, 60, reportedly ill with pneumonia, though rumors buzz in Karachi that he has suffered a stroke; Alabama Governor Lurleen Wallace, 41, in St. Margaret's Hospital in Montgomery after an operation for an abdominal infection, having already undergone surgery for cancer three times in the past...
...company's audiovisual hardware. In the past 15 months, Bell & Howell has absorbed half a dozen companies at a cost of some $35 million. They range from Chicago's Wilding Inc., a movie company currently filming The Monitors, a social satire featuring walk-ons by Senator Everett Dirksen and Bob Hope, to Boston's Charles E. Merrill Books, Inc., a leading textbook house...