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Following Washington's advice about "entangling alliances" the Student Council withdrew from the National Student Association, a move which aroused student apathy. A few weeks later, the first of several questionable elections was held, and nearly half of the college voted on the issue, some perhaps more times than others...
Members of all colleges in the Boston area have been invited to attend the afternoon career conferences, which will be held in Sever A starting Monday, Feb., 9 and will continue once per week until March 18. The Conference on Foreign Commerce, originally scheduled for this Thursday afternoon, will he held on Thursday...
...face of the present Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn of Texas. Also on the cover is the arresting face of another Cannon, Missouri's Clarence (no kin). With them are the three other individualistic legislative leaders who share, in the 86th Congress, the position of power once held, in effect, by Uncle Joe Cannon alone. For the story of the House and its evolution from Joe Cannon to a subtle, interlocking series of relationships, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, "I Love This House...
...because they knew that the President had grabbed a clear Republican tactical advantage by offering his balanced budget. If the Democrats fatten expenses with new appropriations -and Ike has already taken the trouble to hint that he will veto massive Democratic housing and airport legislation programs -they will be held accountable for the resulting deficit. The President has hinted at a tax cut next year if the line is held this year, and House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck has all but promised it; at a time when taxes are climbing at state and local levels, big-spending Democrats might...
TEXAS' SAM RAYBURN, 77, the 44th Speaker of the House, has held his office 14 years, far longer than any other man (Henry Clay, elected Speaker his first day, served ten years). Eighth of eleven children of a Confederate cavalryman, Rayburn comes from tough, Bible-reading ("Every bit of wisdom is written somewhere in that book") people, who scratched a living from 40 sun-baked acres of cotton at Bonham, Texas. Folks such as his family, he thinks, are the "real people," and his feeling for them forms the basis of his political liberalism. Since 1913 Rayburn has represented Texas...