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...Senator Jacob K. Javits, (R-N. Y.), expressed serious doubts yesterday about Rogers's claim to newsmen after a closed hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that all U. S. troops will eventually be withdrawn...
...Senate, New York's liberal Republican Jacob Javits and the state's incoming Conservative James Buckley exchanged friendly banter, even though Javits had just challenged Buckley's right to join the Republican caucus. After he was sworn in, California Democrat John Tunney smilingly grasped the hand of Vice President Spiro Agnew, who had personally fought his election. A bipartisan ovation greeted the return of Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, whose eternal ebullience is still enjoyed by his longtime colleagues. Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, deposed from his job as majority whip only minutes before in a stunning upset, quietly beckoned...
Friedman insists that the Nixon Administration has actually had "enormous success" in trying to arrest inflation by following his monetary prescription. "The medicine is working on schedule," he told TIME Correspondent Jacob Simms. "We have been attacking the severest U.S. inflation on record except for times of major war, but the recession is the mildest in the postwar...
...second point was aimed as much at men like Spiro Agnew as at critics from the left: "Resist the temptation to respond in kind to the untruths and the half-truths that begin to fill the air. The Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt foresaw that ours would be the age of 'the great simplifiers,' and that the essence of tyranny was the denial of complexity. What we need are great complexifiers-men who will not only seek to understand what it is they are about but who will also dare to share that understanding with those for whom they...
...proposed, and the House had passed, new restrictions on textile imports, partly to repay such Southern states as North and South Carolina for support in his election to the presidency. But a band of liberal Senators, led by Oklahoma Democrat Fred Harris and Republicans Charles Percy of Illinois and Jacob Javits of New York, argued that such protectionism represents a historic reversal of U.S. trade policy and threatens to upset international markets. They vowed that it would not pass, and they were willing to talk it to death. The import quotas, moreover, were thrown into a nightmarish omnibus bill...