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...stronger plank was nailed into the Republican platform last fall than a G.O.P. resolution to provide more classrooms for overcrowded U.S. schools. Faced by a 159,000-room shortage last year-and more to come-the Administration proposed to provide the states with $1.3 billion during the next four years in grants distributed on the basis of need. Against strong opposition from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and economy-minded Old Guard Republicans, President Eisenhower himself took charge of the battle to see the measure through Congress...
...prosperity of Western Europe and the poverty of Eastern Europe were all part of the same story, as no one knows better than Russia's new czar, Nikita Khrushchev, who made it a key plank of his new program that Russia must "catch up with America in the per capita production of milk, butter and meat in the next few years...
...York jury. In 1954, in a 50-minute playlet produced on CBS, he threw a harsh light on the dangers inherent in trial by jury. He sat a national audience in the jury box and let them find out for themselves what an abyss of conscience the plank of constitutional law is laid across, and how it feels in the pit of an honest juryman's stomach when he has to walk that plank...
...Houston, after a bar proprietress told him to stop swearing, Durwood Delmont Jenkins qualified for a two-year probation term when he began a loud recitation of the 23rd Psalm instead, was told that that was not appropriate either, grabbed an 8-ft. plank and smashed the bar window...
Hubert Humphrey is a club member along with such conservatives as Theodore Green and Harry Byrd. How did Humphrey get there? You will remember him for his floor fight at the 1948 Democratic convention (in defiance of agreements among party leaders) to get a firm civil rights plank in the platform. He has since learned to compromise. Lest you shudder (White feels that a Senator must "accommodate" to be effective), it should be noted that this compromise may have considerably speeded up the chances of some civil rights laws...