Word: evens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both are skilled political operators -which partly accounts for their success last week. Most of the Senate's conservative G.O.P. was aligned behind Dirksen's son-in-law, Howard Baker of Tennessee. Working against the 43-year-old Baker, however-even among such conservatives as Idaho's Leonard Jordan, Utah's Wallace Bennett and North Dakota's Milton Young-was the senatorial tradition of seniority...
...charges. But the most determined of Haynsworth's opponents now expect that the Judiciary Committee, which may vote this week, will recommend confirming the appointment. Haynsworth may not have his Supreme Court seat in time for the Oct. 6 opening of the court's fall sitting, but even the opposition to his appointment believes that after a floor debate the Senate will approve his appointment...
...murder. Prosecution witnesses confirmed that Samuel Saikin had threatened both Joel and Ella Jean, and two recalled his mentioning the surgery to blot out her memory. But the defense was just as strong. One witness said that Joel had complained about his father and promised "to get even" with him. More important, a gas-station attendant placed the two Saikins and the girl together on the Indiana Toll Road and produced a credit-card slip to confirm the identification...
...least partially on a debate between two factions of the ultraconservative majority on the eleven-man Presidium that runs the country. One group, reportedly led by Deputy First Secretary Lubomir Strougal, a ruthless pro-Moscow loyalist, urged that Dubćek and other liberals be placed on trial, perhaps even on charges of treason. The second group, headed by Party Secretary Alois Indra, apparently objected that such kangaroo-court sessions would saddle the regime with a neo-Stalinist label. Ludvik Svoboda, the popular President and elder statesman of Czechoslovakia, reacted to the suggestion of trials by proclaiming: "As long...
Euphonious Combination. As if to emphasize that the figurehead Vice President would be no more than a figurehead President, the National Assem bly did not even permit Thang to choose his second-in-command. Ignoring the constitution, which authorizes a President to name his Vice President, the Assembly made the decision for him, electing Nguyen Luong Bang, about 65, a member of the party Central Committee and North Viet Nam's Ambassador to Moscow from 1952 to 1957. Whatever other assets the new Vice President brings to his job, his election gives North Viet Nam the world...