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Sir: Contrary to Senator Dirksen's statement in his Senate test ban treaty speech [Sept. 20], Edmund Burke was never Prime Minister of Britain. Though a brilliant orator and M.P., the closest he ever came to being even a Cabinet member was paymaster of the forces in the Rockingham...
According to Jones, students in the North "will be very pleasantly surprised" when they hear Wallace speak. "He is not a bit the way he has been pictured," Jones said. "Wallace is a brilliant orator and has a solid command of legal questions." Despite newspaper reports, he continued, "the Governor...
The Old Orator. Only when word got around that Republican Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen was scheduled to speak did the Senate begin to fill. It was known that Dirksen, after harboring "grave doubts," had come around to approval. It was also known that in order to dispel some of the...
Dirksen, the old orator who can still draw a crowd to the Senate, arrived looking uncharacteristically well-pressed in a blue worsted suit. He had with him an eight-page prepared statement, but he quickly set it aside-"I do not read a manuscript very well," he explained-proceeding to...
A Day-Off in Wales. There were no ambiguities in the mine valley of Nye Sevan's youth; life could be sketched as a charcoal cartoon. In Tredegar, it was lived between the pits and the chapel. The visible enemy was the Tredegar Iron & Coal Co., and the audible...