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Sponsored by Maryland's Charles McC. Mathias Jr., 44, a liberal Republican serving his third term from a district in which few Negroes reside, the watered-down open-housing provision that finally did pass scared the living daylights out of many Congressmen. With the elections not far off, everyone could recall how California's voters rejected the Rumford fair-housing act by a 2 to 1 margin in 1964, defeating Democratic Senatorial Candidate Pierre Salinger, a Rumford backer, in the process. With Congressmen worried about their constituents' reactions, even the gutted provision could muster only...
...decide what kind of work she wants to do," the President of the U.S. told a press conference, and no girl could hope for a better want ad than that. Traveling up to Manhattan for a couple of days to see about a job, Lynda Bird Johnson gave McC all's the first call, then dropped in on Old White House Friend McGeorge Bundy, now with the Ford Foundation. George Hamilton was on hand to enchant her evenings, and Lynda spent her last night doing the town till the wee hours, winding up at a place called Chez Vito...
...moved to reframe the law, but unfortunately the task fell to the House banking committee, which is run as a fief by Chairman Wright Patman, 72. Patman, a moonfaced country lawyer from Patman's Switch (pop. 25), Texas, dislikes big banks, tight money and Federal Reserve Chairman William McC. Martin in about equal degree. Sympathetic to the Supreme Court, Patman stalled the revised bill for 25 weeks. When Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach wrote Patman that he favored a liberalized bank-merger law, Patman just tucked the letter into his pocket. That was too much for committee members...
...History Department will have its own library for the first time in 15 years, Foster McC. Palmer, associate librarian for reference and circulation, said yesterday. Primarily for History concentrators and graduate students, the library will be opened in Widener this September...
Representatives John V. Lindsay (R.N.Y.), Charles McC. Mathias (R.Md.), and Abner W. Sibal (R.Conn.), who won their soats in strongly Democratic districts, took a critical look at the Kennedy administration at the midway point. Their chief quarrels: a serious "lack of candor," a "deliberate attempt" not to tell the whole truth...