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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps a better explanation of the incentive to attend could be found in the experience of the Washington representative of a New York business firm. Having a lonely luncheon a few days ago in Washington's Paul Young's restaurant, a favorite New Frontier hangout, he was approached by a Democratic National Committee staffer. The staffer suggested that the businessman might enjoy paying $1,000 for a dinner ticket. Asked the businessman: "Why in the world would I want to do that?'' Well, there were several reasons. For one thing, all contributors would be invited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: The $1,000 Understanding | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

Last week the officers were up to their old tricks again. Incensed by a Damascus decree stripping them of their army status, the group arranged a dramatic rendezvous in Turkey, then quietly crossed the frontier and made for their old barracks inside Syria. Greeted joyously by some of their former comrades in arms, Nahlawi's men issued a public demand that their discharges be canceled, and that a new general staff to their liking be put in power. To confuse things, the rebellious soldiers insisted on a plebiscite to decide on closer relations with Nasser's Egypt. Otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Syria: Foiled Again | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

...that fashion, Rules would have reverted to a membership of twelve. With a six-six standoff between conservatives and liberals, Conservative Chairman Howard Smith of Virginia was often able to keep liberal legislation from a floor vote. President Kennedy claimed that such a commitee would "emasculate" the whole New Frontier program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Escape from Emasculation? | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

Cooley's fears then were that a liberalized Rules Committee would mean that a batch of New Frontier legislation would be waved through the House. They were certainly not very well founded. Even as expanded, the Rules Committee in the 87th Congress held up 24 bills, including Administration proposals on an urban-affairs department, a mass-transit act, broad federal aid to education, and a youth-conservation corps. More important, other priority Administration bills were either bottled up in other committees or defeated on the House floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Escape from Emasculation? | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

...nonaligned nations-Ghana, Egypt, Indonesia, Burma, Cambodia and Ceylon-who met in Colombo last month and took it upon themselves to arbitrate the bloody Himalayan border dispute between China and India. The neutrals' solution delighted the Chinese, for it set up a demilitarized zone along the Himalayan frontier and actually gave Red China more territory in India than it had occupied before its sudden invasion last October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The Warning on the Walls | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

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