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...disagreed heatedly on how the principle ought to work. Flurries of amendments poured onto the floor and out of caucuses; amendments were followed with amendments to other amendments, and for a time it seemed as if only the page boys had no amendments to offer. Florida's Spessard Holland guessed that, altogether, the many proposals on civil rights weighed eight lbs. Part of the Northern liberal opposition to the Dirksen "proposals" stemmed from an unwillingness to accept a Republican-labeled bill; similarly. Republican opposition to tougher proposals from such liberals as Illinois Democrat Paul Douglas and New York Republican...
...American leaders around conference tables, at luncheon and dinner. In Argentina, one group of committeemen closeted themselves for 1½ hours with Economy Minister Alvaro Alsogaray while another met with eleven top educators, heard earnest argument for more fellowships for study in the U.S. In Chile, the team of Holland and Milton Eisenhower listened to Chilean university heads explain their dilemma as a conflict between a developing nation's obligation to concentrate on technical learning without neglecting liberal arts. Said Finance Minister Roberto Vergara after a long meeting with Donnelly, Knight and Meyer: "They expressed opinions about nothing...
...Milton Eisenhower, president of Johns Hopkins University; Walter J. Donnelly, U.S. Steel's Latin American representative; G. Kenneth Holland, president of the Institute of International Education; O. A. Knight, president of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union; Sears, Roebuck Vice President Charles A. Meyer in charge of Latin American branches; Dana G. Munro, former director of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs...
...visit's end, France promised Peru credit to buy Mystere IV jets, military helicopters and electrical equipment. The Prados then flew to Rome. On the agenda: an audience with Pope John XXIII, visits to Britain, Holland and Germany, and an unofficial return trip next week to his beloved France...
...Exile Betancourt as a troublemaking embarrassment. In 1955 Governor Muñoz Marin of Puerto Rico invited President Figueres of Costa Rica to a meeting in Puerto Rico, where Betancourt, a good friend of both, was then living. The State Department's chief for Latin American Affairs, Henry Holland, hastily got Muñoz Marin on the telephone. He insisted that Muñoz send Betancourt out of Puerto Rico as long as Figueres was there to keep Venezuelan Dictator Pérez Jiménez from thinking that a plot against him was being hatched on U.S. soil...