Word: leader
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...sooner said than answered. Up popped Wisconsin's talky Senator William Proxmire, who has made a happy headline career out of baiting Leader Johnson (TIME, April 20) by demanding Democratic policy meetings. Said Proxmire: "I challenge Senators to tell us what our policy is on the budget, what our policy is on interest rates, what our policy is on taxation, or what our policy is on almost any issue. No one can tell me." While Republican Leader Everett Dirksen gleefully yielded five minutes of his own allotted floor time so that the Democratic squabble could continue, Johnson scoffed...
...that time, brash Bill Proxmire had had about enough. He took his seat-while Johnson delivered a devastating last word. The best living example of a Senate leader's problems, he said, had "just sat down...
...land of the luau. Indeed, last week Hawaiian Democrats pressured out of the June 27 Senate primary race the party's youngest, brightest star: Territorial Senator Daniel K. Inouye, 34, a lawyer who lost his right arm and won a D.S.C. as a second lieutenant platoon leader in World War II's famed "Go For Broke" Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Agreeing to try for Hawaii's lone House of Representatives seat instead, Inouye made no bones about the reason for his decision: "It would give some elder statesmen in our party a clear field...
...enough, it is that old target of Kremlin abuse, Marshal Tito, who has to give the permission-to fly across the Yugoslav territory that separates Albania from the other satellites. Last week, as Khrushchev's jet TU-104 streaked toward Tirana with Tito's consent, the Soviet leader wired: "As I am flying over your territory, I send you warmest congratulations on your [67th] birthday...
Fight the Whites. Leader of the victorious P.A.P.-and Prime Minister-elect -is fiery Secretary General Lee Kuan Yew, 36. A wealthy, golf-playing Singapore Chinese of the third generation, who gained a prized "double first" in law at Cambridge University, Lee campaigned in shirtsleeves to "restore the dignity" of Asians and to "fight against the white man." He saluted his election triumph as "the liberation of the poor." His party's first act, he said early in the campaign, would be to release the Communist-liners now in custody. He also demanded eventual closing of Britain...