Word: edward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Black Caucus in Congress is well organized and active, but it lost its most prestigious member in last month's election, Massachusetts' Edward Brooke, the Senate's only black. No black will hold a committee chairmanship or leadership position for either party in the 96th Congress. The Black Caucus claims credit for the passage this year of the Humphrey-Hawkins Bill, but the diluted act simply outlined goals for full employment rather than authorizing the means to achieve it. The Caucus was effective in creating the "minority set-aside program," which earmarks 10% of federal construction funds...
...remain as chairman of the Africa Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee. So, too, must Pennsylvania's Daniel Flood, indicted on bribery and other charges, if he wishes to keep his chairmanship of the Labor, Health, Education and Welfare Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee. Similarly, Californians Edward Roybal and Charles Wilson, censured in the Korea scandal, may be able to keep their subcommittee positions...
...Commencement left before the summer began, the Yard and surrounding buildings were deserted, and, according to one newspaper account, the tall Hanfstaengl was soon red in the face and weary from carrying the pair of busts through the June heat. Finally, in music building, he caught sight of Professor Edward Burlingame Hill, a music professor who was about to leave for a vacation in New Hampshire. Hanfstaengl, a tall, strapping man, accosted Hill and insisted that he take the statues, one of Schopenhauer, the other of Van Gluck, another German composer. Hill could find room only for the Van Gluck...
...task of removing the bodies from Guyana and embalming them was expensive, but the Government would not yet predict the total costs. The fact that U.S. taxpayers were bearing the cost upset at least two Congressmen, Illinois Republican Philip Crane and Rhode Island Democrat Edward Beard. They publicly protested the use of federal funds (unofficial estimates of the cost have run as high as $8 million) to transport and process the decayed remains. Said Crane: "Although the entire situation is deplorable, the responsibility to bring the loved ones back to the United States rests with the families, not the Federal...
...Britons watch a seven-part series titled Edward and Mrs. Simpson on the telly, the lady herself lies ailing and aggrieved in her Paris villa. The Duchess of Windsor, now 82, is said to feel that the show portrays her as the future King's "mistress" and a "cheap adventuress." Comes the word from her lawyer, Suzanne Blum: "She was the reluctant partner. The King did not want a mistress, and if he had he would not have abdicated. He wanted a wife and the support of one woman for the rest of his life." To prove...