Word: ev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goddamned if I'll be pushed around!" That was hardly news to the Administration, which has heaped lavish praise on the Illinois Republican for supporting Lyndon Johnson's policies on major issues such as Viet Nam and civil rights. By way of asserting himself, nonetheless, Ev last week abruptly blocked the progress of the Administration's immigration bill-which he also happens to support...
...Ev was not deranged but derisive. He was protesting the use of $52,018 in last year's anti-poverty program to give 480 needy teen-agers from Gary, Ind., a preview of potential occupations ranging, according to a Government handout, "from trucking to choreography and from graphic arts to oil refining." Still pirouetting as he addressed an imaginary teen-age audience, Dirksen cried: "You may be allergic to ballet dancing, or driving a truck, or operating a filling station, but have a look anyway. Be fascinated just to look at work." Even the pas de Dirksen failed...
...point Dirksen challenged Connecticut Democrat Abraham Ribicoff, floor manager of the bill, to 1) write down the initial number of employees in the new department, and 2) put the list in an envelope, along with a $100 bill. "I'll put in a $100 bill too," said Ev, "and if this thing doesn't grow, you'll collect the $100." It was no bet. "You'd collect it," retorted Ribicoff, "because this Congress will be voting new programs." And, he argued, the nation needs them. "When our Constitution was adopted," Ribicoff said, "only five per cent...
...condemnation of Galileo has ever since been cited to demonstrate Roman Catholicism's opposition to science and free inquiry. Later, of course, it turned out to the satisfaction of ev eryone, including the Roman Catholic Church, that the earth does revolve around the sun. Galileo's works were removed from the Index in 1822, and a year ago French Jesuit François Russo suggested that the church might also formally repudiate the unjust censures directed...
Landon of Kansas, turned down an in vitation); Congressional Leaders Ev Dirksen and Tom Kuchel from the Sen ate, Gerry Ford and Les Arends from the House; Governors George Romney of Michigan and Bill Scranton of Penn sylvania, both top prospects for the 1968 presidential nomination; G.O.P...