Word: membered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years as Secretary of State; Michigan's Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg, for one, felt genuine pity one night when Acheson dropped by his apartment and, over a mournful drink, told of his troubles with Congress. Yet as a private citizen-practicing law in Washington and sitting as a member of the Democratic Advisory Council-no one has worked harder than Dean Acheson at urging the Democratic Congress to give the Republican Administration political fits. Last week, invited to Capitol Hill for dinner with a dozen or so Democratic Senators. Acheson listened restlessly while his tablemates complained about the difficulty...
Most of Strauss's troubles were caused by New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson, senior Senate member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy and a longtime Strauss foe, who filled page after page of the hearing record with charges of extraordinary bitterness. But Lewis Strauss contributed to his own problems: despite his obvious abilities as a public servant, he made a poor witness, angered Democrats with his argumentativeness. embarrassed Republicans with his evasiveness...
...well-justified nervousness about next fall's Philippine senatorial elections. In the two years since Magsaysay's death in a plane crash elevated him to the presidency, high-living Carlos Garcia has become identified with economic mismanagement and governmental corruption; in the Philippine Senate last week a member of Garcia's own Nacionalista Party charged that 16 of the President's intimates, including his son-in-law and two of his brothers, had engaged in large-scale influence peddling. If General Vargas used the army to enforce an honest election-as he had done...
...killed Sir Harry Oakes? Like Sir Harry himself, the issue had been dead for 16 years, and Nassau's nice people never talked about it. But last week Cyril Stevenson, an irreverent minority member of Nassau's House of Assembly, loudly claimed that he knew who did Sir Harry in. Stevenson did not identify the culprit, Sir Harry's murderer stayed doggo, and the whole effect was rather like spilling the canape tray at a Government House garden party...
...Winn Jr., 23, of Dallas, began to lose his vision at the age of six. He is about to receive a B.S. at North Texas State College, has had eleven A's and one B in the last three semesters. Winn is president of the 7,000-member student body, also wrestles, swims, plays golf, and runs the 100-yd. dash. ¶ Mrs. Bianca C. Stewart, 22, of New York City, has been blind for twelve years. A dean's list and Phi Beta Kappa Senior at Queens College, she majors in English and plans...