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Posies. Some ten feet away from Dirksen, drinking it all in, was North Dakota's Non-Partisan League Senator William Langer. Dirksen's speech, said Langer, "brought tears to my eyes. I wondered if we should not include in the resolution a provision for sending flowers to Senator McCarthy, and whether we should not debate the kind of flowers which should be sent-whether they be forget-me-nots, chrysanthemums or roses...
Everett Dirksen apparently could not decide if Langer was being facetious. He finally decided to play the North Dakotan straight, and as always, Dirksen was ready with a flowery reply. Said he: "The only thing I know in the rulebook about flowers is that there is in the general rules appertaining to the Senate a provision that flowers must not be brought into the Senate Chamber." It would be best, he thought, for individual Senators to follow their consciences about sending bouquets to Joe. But, he added, "Any Senator is at liberty to send flowers ... if the sweet and gentle...
Contradicting a survey in the New York Times, William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History and head of the Research Center, said that the University had not followed the national trend which indicates that 35 percent fewer students in American universities are studying Slavic languages in 1954 than...
...York Times claimed that the University's Russian Research Center had shown a noticeable decrease in enrollment during the last three years. Langer, however, said that the Center had undergone no decline in recent years. "We have 20 students in the Center, studying all phases of Russian life, and that's as many as we can handle," he added...
Both Merle Fainsod, professor of Government, and Adam Ulam, assistant professor of Government--authorities on Soviet affairs--agreed with Langer's evaluations. They pointed out that Vishinsky was never popular with the United States. Both felt he would probably be replaced by some high ranking diplomat...