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...majority of the Labor Committee was not concerned with the President's feelings. "I don't care," said New York's Republican Jacob Javits. "It's time that at least one congressional committee stood up to the President and let him know that it can see what is needed in the cities and has the guts to go ahead and propose it." Nor is the mood of frustrated independence likely to change after the recess is over. "We not only don't know the answers ourselves," said one Republican Senator, "but we are completely convinced...
...dates later, Watson is located dead-center in the forward thrust of country music toward highbrow as well as lowbrow respectability. The very impurity of his style, coupled with the exhilaration his work generates, goes a long way to accomplish this aim. Like a select few before him (John Jacob Miles, Travis, Clarence Ashley), he forms a bridge between America's primitive folk heritage and the sophisticated listener...
What it boils down to is one major hassle over the ASP, and a defeat here would set back the whole trend toward more international trade. As Senator Jacob Javits put it, "Unless forces favoring trade liberalization are ready to go into battle in defense of the principle of trade liberalization on every one of these issues, much that has been gained over the past four years of the Kennedy Round could easily be lost. And let's not kid ourselves, unless we have the full support of the President the chances of resisting self-interest and protectionist forces will...
...York Senator Jacob Javits said hopefully that "we may some day be able to regard the riots of this summer as a blessing in disguise which saved us from an even worse conflagration later." The blessing is costly and the disguise almost perfect, but Javits had a point. Even impoverished Negroes, when given a chance by city authorities, are learning from experience. Many of the cities afflicted by riots in 1965 and 1966 have escaped serious trouble so far this year...
...Jacob F. Freeze, a student at the Summer School, was injured early yesterday morning in a fire at the Architects Collaborative office building. 136 Mt. Auburn St., as he tried to alert possible occupants before the fire trucks arrived...