Word: folksing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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As a onetime Rhodes scholar, as the father of an international scholarship program, and as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Democrat J. William Fulbright keeps his eyes on the far horizons. But as the junior Senator from Arkansas, he depends on the votes of the folks in the...
Bridge to the Sun (MGM) is a woman's picture that sets out to celebrate the glories of interracial marriage but merely manages to prove that it can be as dull as the other kind. Cut and dried from Gwen Terasaki's bestselling autobiography, Bridge tells the story...
My first wife longed for social place She thrashed about with scarlet face To get the chance to meet a prince. My second made me shake and wince By violence, by blasts and blares, As she managed other folks' affairs. My third was winsome, playful, kind, But often difficult...
The Folks at Home. After the 1960 elections, the Senate, with a 64-10-36 Democratic majority, figured to be-and was-pretty much a rubber stamp for the Kennedy Administration. But the House was a different matter.
In the elections, no fewer than 303 of the House's 437 members received more votes than John Kennedy in their home districts. Such Congressmen could reasonably consider themselves to be better judges than the President of the desires of their constituencies. The House was more than willing to...