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There is a lot of honey in the HARYOU-ACT pot, though, and the politicians are already buzzing around it like bumblebees. Buzzing loudest is Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, who threatens to hamstring the venture unless he is given veto power over the choice of its executive director. The issue...
The Crimson defense was hurting without the speedy Gates, who pulled a hamstring muscle in practice yesterday. Yale's small but manueverable attack dominated play for most of the game and shot almost at will.
There is hope, therefore, that Congress will move from the modest NDEA program to a large commitment to increasing educational opportunity. In so doing, supporters who are leery of the very real problem of federal control might take instruction from the NDEA example. Like any federal program, NDEA established a...
"An Immediate Lift." Barnett's second-string heroics have inspired a dedicated band of Barnett boosters to get out the paintpots and troop to Laker home games beneath placards proclaiming "Fall back, baby!" Almost from the opening tip-off they noisily inform Coach Schaus that "We want Barnett!" Barnett...
Senator Anderson's proposal to modify the rule on cloture, by reducing the majority needed to end debate from two-thirds to three-fifths, has failed. From the start the proposal received remarkably unaggressive support from the liberals who sponsored it. They, and the outright opponents of the change, failed...