Word: gossett
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Playwright Peterson has captured Spencer's seventeen-ness admirably, and High-School Senior Louis Gossett plays him well. There is a fresh, humorous smack to the writing-that sense of proportion so vital in dealing with a character who lacks one. But only his humor and his hero are Playwright Peterson's own; they function inside a framework, indeed a virtual cage of cliches. Where Spencer is typical but real, his experiences are merely trite, and sometimes clumsy and protracted. What makes Take a Giant Step uncommon in terms of Negro life-its middle-class outlook-is precisely...
Last month Texas Democrat Ed Gossett left his seat in the House and went back home to become counsel for the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. at $25,000 a year, because he found it impossible to support his wife and five children on a Congressman's $12,500 salary and $2,500 untaxed expense account (TIME, Aug. 13). Last week seven Democrats and one Republican thought enough of a Congressman's pay and position to fight it out for the seat in a special election. The winner: husky District Judge Frank Ikard, 37, a Wichita Falls Democrat...
...Gossett, 49, seventh-term Congressman and a member of Speaker Sam Rayburn's loyal band of Texans, got up to make a speech about the underprivileged Congressman. Inflation had made it impossible, he explained sadly, for him to support his wife and five children on his $12,500 salary and $2,500 untaxed expense account. "If we would preserve America," he said, "our demands upon our elected representatives must be based upon the general welfare and not upon shortsighted selfishness." With that and his resignation on file, he said goodbye to the House and left for Texas, there...
...delegation will advocate five major policies at the convention: civilian administration of occupied areas in Japan; removal of loyalty checks on National Science Foundation scholarship holders; passage of the Lodge-Gossett Amendment; establishment of Columbia, Missouri, and Connecticut River Valley projects; and opposition to the Mundt-Nixon Bill...
...Pigeonholed in the House Rules Committee the Senate-approved Lodge-Gossett constitutional amendment to change the system of counting electoral votes in presidential elections (TIME, Feb. 13). ¶ Voted to make Hawaii a state (having already endorsed statehood for Alaska), sent the bill to the Senate where a similar proposal had been shelved three years...