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...Anyone who has completed the sixth grade (eighth grade in some states) in a school operated under the U.S. flag will be allowed to vote, even if he cannot read, write, understand or interpret English. This amendment, co-sponsored by Republican Jacob Javits and Democrat Bobby Kennedy, chiefly affects some 330,000 Spanish-speaking Puerto Ricans in New York City and is perhaps the most dubious part of the bill...
...easy sailing. But the effort to repeal 14(b) is likely to tax all Johnson's skills. Most Republicans and Southern Democrats will oppose it. So, probably, will some Midwestern and Western legislators of both parties. And even some liberals are disappointed. New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits, who favors repeal, wrote last week: "The President failed to take into account the public concern over the extension of union authority which will result from 14(b)'s repeal . . . Trade-union activity is heavily responsible for the rising standard of living, job security and better working conditions...
Teddy helped mobilize labor and church groups behind the amendment, enlisted Harvard Law Professor Paul Freund to tutor him in the constitutional issues, spent hours on the telephone with such colleagues as New York's Jacob Javits, his chief Republican ally, and did personal lobbying in the corridors. Brother Bobby feigned indifference and pointedly did not join 38 co-sponsors of the amendment, but he worked actively behind the scenes for it. For the opposition, Dirksen set about swinging wavering Republicans back into line. His technique differs considerably from the arm-twisting tactics made famous by Lyndon Johnson. "Senator...
Manhattan now boasts 21 discotheques, where such luminaries as Rudolf Nureyev, Dame Margot Fonteyn, Truman Capote, Baby Jane Holzer, Sammy Davis Jr., ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia, Carol Channing, Peter Lawford, Tennessee Williams and Oleg Cassini mix it up with the hip twitchers. Both New York Senators?Jacob Javits and his wife Marion ("My husband and I just love to frug"), and Bobby Kennedy and Ethel ("I can't believe all that action on such a small floor")?make the discotheque scene. Jackie Kennedy, on her occasional visits to Il Mio, does a sedate version of the frug. Adlai...
...Jacob R. Brackman '65, of Adams and Great Neck, N.Y., has been awarded the annual Dana Reed Prize for distinguished writing in a Harvard undergraduate publication. He received the award for character sketches of Ginsberg and Martin Luther King, which appeared in the CRIMSON...