Word: dirksens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberal medical philosophy, immediately presented three more candidates and backed its suggestions with political muscle. Last year the American Medical Political Action Committee contributed more than $2,600,000 to political candidates, most of them Republicans. Richard Nixon's campaign was one beneficiary. Illinois Republican Everett Dirksen, whose 1968 re-election campaign reportedly received $150,000, became the visible leader of the dump-Knowles drive...
...feeling is widely shared on Capitol Hill. Everett Dirksen, the Senate Republican leader, acknowledges: "There's no use higgling about it. Nothing has been going on." With the session well into its sixth month and the government's new fiscal year beginning July 1, the Senate's principal accomplishment has been to approve the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty-a piece of business left over from last year. The House has done little except to process a few routine appropriations measures, none of which has yet come to the Senate floor...
...Dirksen observes that Congress lacks not only White House guidance but a sense of popular direction. "A lot of people," says he, "don't seem to know whether they want anything from Congress right now or not." Until they find out, Republicans are generally content to wait on the President, while many Democrats are satisfied to defend existing domestic programs...
Senator Everett Dirksen (R. Ill.) will be fending off the reporters...
...where I Am Curious (Yellow) made its debut, viewers have been the most nonchalant of all. Undoubtedly distracted by worries of pollution and politics, audiences uttered no complaint when the subtitles slipped off-screen for one complete show, leaving nothing but nudes spouting Swedish. Apart from Philadelphia and Senator Dirksen, it seems, Curious has caused only one other stir: The over-the-counter stock of Grove Press, the movie's distributor, was selling at $6.25 in October 1968. Last week as Curious (Yellow) moved out to other major cities shares were over $30, and rising...