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Even for bills that cannot command a two-thirds majority, there are two possible detours around the Rules Committee, but they are lumpy, uphill roads, rarely traveled. Any Congressman can drag a bill out of the Rules Committee if he can get a majority of the entire membership of the...
The crowd of desperate Cubans swarming around the U.S. embassy in Havana refused to believe that the doors were locked and that no more visas could be issued. One man hammered on the glass, waving his U.S. Army discharge papers. A woman with a broken leg was held up piteously...
Once the Kennedy Administration decides what it wants the peace corps to do, it must still face up to the politically explosive question of the draft. As first proposed, the peace corps was viewed, quite correctly, as an alternative to the draft; it was argued that there should be a...
In New Delhi, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru last week admitted in Parliament that NEFA's conglomerate tribes have another peculiar habit unflattering to a civilized nation: they still practice slavery. Nehru said that the government was trying to eradicate the custom slowly by giving asylum to escaped slaves and...
¶ Kansas-born Linden Johnson, 46 (no relation to Vice President-elect Lyndon Johnson), served with the U.S. Air Force in India, Burma and China, took his discharge overseas in 1948, and was trapped by the Red Chinese when they captured Shanghai. Released in 1950, Johnson arrived in Hong Kong...