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...dangdest bunch of lobbyists anyone ever laid eyes on-a five-man Arkansas jug band appearing before a Senate subcommittee on behalf of Green Thumb, a Government project that gives old folks jobs beautifying Arkansas roadsides. As the jug band sawed away, someone passed out Green Thumb hard hats (worn as protection against falling tree branches). One of the hats wound up atop that dour Arkansan John McClellan, 71. Without a change in his grim expression, McClellan stood up and began dancing a jig to the Arkansas Traveler, all the while slapping at the hat to keep it in place...
Dean Ford has established a new five-man committee to review Harvard University's existing athletic facilities and report on the need for possible major additions to them...
...only person ever convicted in the assassination of President Kennedy, and I don't know beans about it," said Attorney Dean Andrews before he went on trial two weeks ago. For once he seemed to be right. Last week a five-man New Orleans jury* found him guilty of having committed perjury three times during District Attorney Jim Garrison's bootless investigation into the Kennedy assassination. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison...
...bowler-hatted commuters to The City. Now it prints shorter, snappier pieces on crime, Carnaby Street and California hippies. Reporters are no longer anonymous; they have bylines and are told to pursue the news rather than just ponder it. Editor in Chief Denis Hamilton has set up a five-man task force that stands ready to cover any breaking story at home or abroad. The old Times was never in such a rush...
Specifically, the bill created a five-man panel to mediate the dispute and, if no agreement emerged in 90 days, to impose a settlement that would be binding until Jan. 1, 1969. In naming the panel, the President surprised everybody by including A.F.L.-C.l.O. President George Meany. It came as a still greater surprise when Johnson named as chairman Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse. For one thing, he is one of L. B. J.'s peskiest Viet Nam war critics. Moreover, although Morse is an old hand at labor mediation, he won the implacable enmity...