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...Government acts in its own interest by supporting it, just as other countries support their student organizations. But the objective could be accomplished with no scandal if HEW handled the funds. Yet one wonders: If such an expenditure were proposed in Congress, would not Senators Tower and Eastland and Congressman Rivers be among the first to cry "socialism...
...still-dominant Democrats also got a sorely needed transfusion. While such segregationist stalwarts as Arkansas' John McClellan, Georgia's Richard Russell, Louisiana's Allen Ellender and Mississippi's James Eastland were returned to the Senate with little or no opposition, a number of more progressive Democrats also won statewide office?notably Buford Ellington, elected Governor of Tennessee, and South Carolina's Governor Robert E. McNair, who as Lieutenant Governor acceded to the top job last year when Governor Donald Russell resigned. In Virginia, the big winner was William Spong, the moderate Democrat who ousted Senator A. Willis Robertson...
...MISSISSIPPI U.S. SENATOR Eastland (D)* (winner) Walker (R) U.S. House (5) +1 Democrat...
...younger brother, Bobby often broods in solitude at his Senate desk, sometimes leaves without trading the customary pleasantries. The more genial Teddy is generally well accepted and is working his way into the Senate "Establishment" by dint of such seemingly inconsequential actions as lingering in Mississippi Senator James O. Eastland's office one morning a few years ago to sip bourbon with him. "Teddy's more casual," says Fred Holborn, a White House aide under J.F.K. "Ask Teddy to put more bite into a speech, and he'll refuse, saying...
...HUAC is almost finished with the Klan, and now I guess it's our turn," the spokesman said. In an issue of the New Left Notes on May 6, he continued, Sen. James O. Eastland (D-Miss.) is quoted as saying that he was going to introduce an anti-subversive bill which would investigate the peace programs, the War on Poverty, SDS, SNCC, the DuBois Club, and the National Coordinating Committee...