Word: ev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protested Ev with horror, he would not dare ask his wife about her dabblings in the stock market. "She would say to me, 'It is not the Senate's business,' " he declared. "We have lived 40 happy years together. It just proves that love and harmony and sweetness of life still prevail in the Dirksen family. But she is her own boss." The public-disclosure amendment did have sizable support - notably from Connecticut's Tom Dodd, whose transgressions in part prompted demand for the code. Yet the amendment failed...
Died. Benjamin Harrison Dirksen, 73, the Senator's older brother, who stayed in Illinois with Ev's twin brother, Thomas, to help run the family bakery; of a heart attack; in Pekin...
...HARDIN: 2 (Verve Forecast). Though some teeny-boppers would consider his topics awfully untopical, there is always a tremendous old-fashioned poignancy in Hardin's roughhewn songs. And some of them are blessed with a surprising humanism: "Ev'ry moment means so much/ When your baby's skin is there to touch/ Every moment bringing more/ That's what mother and father are for." There are times, though, when Hardin's hesitant hoarseness does a disservice to his music; other folk singers, particularly Joan Baez, are more capable of illuminating the songs' best qualities...
...most of the Senate favored the measure. As in 1964, when he helped shep herd that year's sweeping civil rights bill into law, Dirksen abruptly appointed himself field marshal of the liberals' forces. Together with a squad of his lawyers known as "Dirksen's Bombers," Ev spent more than two days in negotiations with Senate liberals to fashion a compromise bill. The legislation that emerged would affect an estimated total of 44.6 million of the roughly 65 million housing units in the nation...
Their trouble set in when they attempted to make a politically effective response. In a sleepy, somewhat supercilious dialogue, Ev and Jerry spent most of their time defending the Democratic-controlled 90th Congress, berating the Administration for inflationary policies, and bragging that because of added Republican strength, the 90th is able to stand up to the President where the 89th had not. Dirksen rightly observed that while many Democrats backbit the President on Viet Nam, "the wooden soldiers have not only been sustaining the Commander in Chief, but have been sustaining the live soldiers in Viet...