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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dirksen used to advantage a Senate rule by which no committee other than Appropriations may meet while the main body is in session. "I must insist on that rule," he intoned in his best steamboat-Gothic profundo. "I cannot, helter-skelter, permit one committee to meet and not another." Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright protested in vain that his Foreign Relations Committee urgently needed to review President Johnson's $275 million supplemental request for economic aid to South Viet Nam. The problem could easily be resolved, Dirksen countered, by getting Mansfield to withdraw his motion to take up repeal...
...blizzard's main force hit central New York, the East's traditional "snow belt." Syracuse measured 53 in. of snow, Rochester 28.4. Oswego (pop. 23,000), a port city on Lake Ontario, was hit with 101.5 in. Huge, 30-ft. drifts blocked Oswego's main streets. In Syracuse, 40 office girls were trapped for more than two days in Mohawk Airlines offices. In Rochester, a nuptial dinner lasted for three days when wedding guests were snowed in at Temple Beth...
...Main Street Meetings." The issue on which Hansen differs most sharply with his G.O.P. predecessors (and some Democratic Governors as well) is that of federal aid, from which Wyoming in the past has recoiled as if it were a one-way pass to perdition. Last year, nonetheless, Hansen persuaded the legislature to repeal a Wyoming law that prohibited the use of state funds to match federal grants for public education (the only nay votes in either house came from Republicans). Says Hansen: "I don't stand against federal programs. My job is to make all the elements...
...drum up support for his programs and get ideas for new ones, Hansen has begun a series of day-long "Main Street meetings" in each of Wyoming's 23 counties, last week drew a talkative crowd of 100 at Lusk (pop. 1,890), the county seat of agricultural Niobrara County, which is steadily losing its young folk to livelier areas. "These are times of rapid change, and state government must be alert to all of its opportunities," he told them. "People expect more of their city and state governments, and I recognize that the things expected must be done...
...States succeeds in altering the military balance, it must still wage a major political war in the South to create the conditions necessary for a coalition dominated by the Saigon regime. A large segment of the peasantry has remained loyal to the Viet Cong underground, which operates as the main intelligence source for the Communists. As Charles Mohr reported from Saigon in Monday's Times, "the peasants have shown little inclination to inform on this structure and to help government activity. This is the central problem of the South Vietnamese...