Word: mc
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...majority. The crucial vote came on Wednesday of last week. There was a single hour of debate. Pressure came from the White House for a vote against the bill, and from the N.A.A.C.P. and the A.F.L.-C.l.O. for it. During the debate, the G.O.P.'s respected William Mc-Culloch of Ohio warned the House that a "no" vote would mean that "the most effective civil rights law in our nation's history will be emasculated.'' Celler was now as strongly in favor of the package as he had been opposed to the 18-year-old vote...
...Tommy the Traveler was indeed so well traveled, the question arises whether he was an employee of the Ontario County sheriff's office the entire time. TIME Correspondent Frank Mc-Culloch spoke with Sheriff Morrow in an effort to find...
Community canvassing has continued from the Tonkens Room at Winthrop House, despite bad weather and declining interest. Briefing sessions on canvassing techniques will be held all day today, and Winthrop organizers are still circulating petitions on the Mc-Govern-Hatfleld amendment and on Referendum...
...media, the advertising agencies, the Government-even President Nixon himself-have all helped flatten and attenuate the English tongue. When radicals misuse language, they are only applying the lesson they have been so well taught by their society. That lesson has been reinforced by philosophers now in fashion-Marshall Mc-Luhan, for instance, who says that pictures are more important than words and contemplates a society of inarticulate tribal emotions based on instant sight and sound. Or Herbert Marcuse, who teaches that protesting words are as empty as air in a technological society where power is concentrated...
...intensity of student involvement. I think personally that now's the time to get something through Congress. You gentlemen have extraordinary contacts: you could work wonders." There ensued a long discussion of tactics. Kennedy said the important thing was to get as many votes as possible for the Hatfield-Mc-Govern amendment now, even if it loses. "We can work around the gymnastics of letting people change their minds later." As the names flew around the room, Bator and Yarmolinksi, at least, were clearly enjoying themselves tremendously. This part of the game was not entirely foreign to them...