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...election year. Faced with President Truman's veto of the Act just before the last election, over two-thirds of the House and Senate, voted to over-ride. And among those who voted to pass the Act were many Democratic Senators who now control important posts--Johnson, George, Fulbright, Byrd, Eastland--as well as both Knowland and Bridges. If the President puts his full authority behind the changes, however, Congress should accept some, even if not all, the proposals. In the past when the President has fully utilized his popularity--on such issues as Reciprocal Trade and the Bricker Amendment...
...TIME GOOFED ON GAS. ALEX M. CLARK DOES NOT SUPPORT MY POSITION IN OPPOSITION TO THE FULBRIGHT NATURAL-GAS BILL . . . MR. CLARK IS EMPLOYED AS CHAIRMAN OF THE "JOINT COMMITTEE OF CONSUMERS AND SMALL PRODUCERS OF NATURAL GAS" AND IS DIRECTING ITS LOBBYING EFFORTS TO PROMOTE THE INTEREST OF THE LARGE 'GAS PRODUCERS. NOTE THAT ONLY 29 PRODUCERS PROVIDED 63% OF ALL NATURAL GAS FOR INTERSTATE USE IN 1953. JUST TWO COMPANIES CONTROL APPROXIMATELY ONE-SEVENTH OF ALL U.S. NATURAL-GAS RESERVES. MY STAND IS TAKEN TO PROTECT FREE ENTERPRISE AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST, NOT TO PROVIDE SPECIAL TREATMENT...
...handle the bill on the floor, Johnson picked Oklahoma's amiable Senator Mike Monroney, at whom nobody ever gets mad. Backing Monroney was Arkansas' syrup-toned Senator William Fulbright, who specializes in charm. In the background was Oklahoma's heavy-fisted, wrath-kindling Senator Robert Kerr, longtime champion of the gas producers...
Richard E. Beinhorn from the University of Freiburg, Germany, and Jorgen S. Jensen from the University of Copenhagen are two of the visitors in this year's program. Beinhorn is a Fulbright scholar, While Jensen came to the United States with the aid of a grant from the Institute of International Education. Both intend to write their doctorate theses on American subjects...
...Student Council will sponsor a discussion of opportunities for study abroad tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Lamont Forum Room. Dean Leighton, Carroll Miles, and Louis Newby will give informal talks, paying special attention to the Fulbright and Rhodes scholarships. The program will be open to juniors and seniors, who have been advised to attend...