Word: memberships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Evaporating Indignation? Then there is the question of uniformity in House and Senate rules. Acting admittedly in different circumstances, the House barred Adam Clayton Powell from membership, while Dodd retains both his seat and his seniority.*The Powell case prompted creation of a House ethics committee, which is also supposed to formulate a code of conduct. Mansfield thinks that "the Senate must go ahead on its own. Let the House tend to its own business." Republican Leader Everett Dirksen believes a common document should cover both Houses...
...alternative will be accepted in the United States. Marshal Ky's recently proclaimed view of the free elections which denies criticism to his opponents and promises military action against unwelcome winners was the coup de grace. I venture to think that he has now lost even his honorary membership in what are often called the forces of freedom...
...nationwide racial uprisings. The only hitch in RAM's secret plans was that New York City police had been chronicling its activities for two years and had apparently infiltrated a Negro rookie cop into the group. Throughout the U.S., according to the FBI, the organization has an active membership of about...
There are twice as many tennis players in the U.S. (10 million) as there are people in Ecuador, (5,000,000), and the list of participants on a Sunday at the courts in Manhattan's Central Park is longer than the membership rolls (500) at all of Ecuador's five tennis clubs combined. But the U.S. Davis Cup team, which in eight years has managed to lose to Mexico, Italy (twice), Spain and Brazil, was not about to let statistics stand in the way. In Guayaquil last week, a four-man U.S. squad headed by Arthur Ashe-ranked...
...Richard Ireland, founder of the University of Life Church in Phoenix (membership: 1,400), who claims the power to communicate with souls, frequently dons a blindfold to demonstrate his powers of mental telepathy...