Word: magnusons
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Associate Editor Ed Magnuson, who wrote the story, is a veteran of 26 TIME covers, dating back to 1962 and encompassing the full range of domestic debate over the war. Magnuson is a former Navy man, having done a two-year hitch before he went on to study journalism at the University of Minnesota in 1948. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate, Magnuson worked for ten years as a reporter and assistant city editor on the Minneapolis Tribune before coming to TIME in 1960. "Ed has the most professional of gifts: the ability to take an enormous quantity of complicated material...
Third-Rate. The SST went down despite just such warnings from its backers. "If you're talking about no SST," said Washington's Warren Magnuson just before the Senate voted, "you're talking about no American SST. You will be leading America down the road toward becoming a third-rate nation in aviation. We'll be running into a technological Appalachia around here if we're not careful." The vote was another blow to the nation's beleaguered aerospace industry (see BUSINESS). Afterward Magnuson put a brave face on what had happened-"this...
...galleries murmured again when Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, a freshman widely viewed as a conservative, uttered his no-even though Fellow Texan John Connally had been assigned to coax a yes from him. Heads bowed over their tally sheets, Jackson and Washington's other SST proponent, Democrat Warren Magnuson, looked glum. Proxmire's fist shot up again when Cooper showed that Nixon's appeal had not influenced him; he voted against the SST. Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, who owes a huge debt to labor for its support in his presidential race, nevertheless cast his vote against...
...either unmoved by Nixon's letter or angered at its timing, offered her barely audible no,-the outcome was clear. The final vote was 51 to 46 against spending any more money to develop the aircraft. Colleagues rushed to congratulate Proxmire. Jackson, too, shook his hand. Magnuson remained seated...
...deviousness in the voting. One Senator organizing the Kennedy support insists that he had "28 eyeball-to-eyeball commitments 24 hours before the vote," but that four Senators did not keep their pledges on the secret ballot. Suspicion centered mainly upon Washington's two Senators, Henry Jackson and Warren Magnuson, because Kennedy had opposed Seattle-based Boeing's supersonic transport; Connecticut's Abe Ribicoff. who has had past differences with the Kennedy brothers; and South Dakota's George McGovern, an announced presidential candidate, who is trying to appeal to the same kinds of voters that a Kennedy candidacy would probably...