Word: leader
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Comic Relief. The day after Morse's speech, Illinois' Minority Leader Everett Dirksen provided some unintentional comic relief. Arguing that it was unsporting to hold Mrs. Luce's old political speeches against her, Orator Dirksen cried: "Why thrash old hay or beat an old bag of bones?" As the galleries guffawed, Minnesota's Democrat Hubert Humphrey played for laughs. "I must rise to the defense of the lady," he said...
Back on Capitol Hill, Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson saw opportunity: REA was one of those rare issues where Democrats of the South would likely stick together with other Democrats around the compass. They decided they could muster the necessary two-thirds vote to override the veto and doubly defeat the President. Republican Leader Everett Dirksen and Ike's other lieutenants in the Senate were in glum agreement; with the help of six farm-bloc minded Republicans (Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper. South Dakota's Francis Case and Karl Mundt, North Dakota...
Varsity captain Frank Dodge will face Bulldog leader John Souseman in the number one contest. Souseman defeated Dodge last year, 4 and 3, and the Crimson captain will be out for revenge today. The second varsity man, sophomore Fisk Warren, will have the unenviable task of facing Yale's Ted Weiss, a finalist in last spring's Eastern Intercollegiate Tournament...
...face of it, even this bonus seems not enough to preserve peace for long periods under water. With a high proportion of respected experts aboard, submarine society quickly shakes down to "smalltown" clusters of six or eight men congealed around a leader. But these clusters do not freeze into antagonistic cliques, Captain Alvis reported, because endless recombinations occur in a modern sub's big crew of 80 or more men. "It takes quite a while for even a rather unpleasant person to inflict himself on everyone in the group." And a bad apple can always...
Died. Egon Reinert, 50, Prime Minister of the Saar, a leader in Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union Party, who became the Saarland's Prime Minister in June 1957, five months after the French relinquished the control they had exercised over the region since the end of World War II; of auto-crash injuries; in Saarbrücken, West Germany...