Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Factions and Fractions. There was good reason for disappointment. With Congress on the verge of adjourning, the President at last count had seen only 15.8% of this session's proposals passed, large and small. In 1956 Ike's record stood at 45.7%; in the halcyon days of 1953 it was a whopping 72.7%. There was precedent for this downward trend of the percentages. Harry Truman, battling violently against his final Democratic Congress, managed to push, pull and maneuver through only a fraction of his requests. And Franklin Roosevelt, in his later terms, had to deal with a Democratic...
...rights bill, with the Senate amendment requiring jury trials in all criminal contempt cases, was stuck fast in the House Rules Committee and needed G.O.P. votes to bring it out. But Joe Martin, who is not even certain that he has any Negroes in his district ("I've seen one or two of them on the streets in Attleboro, but I can't say I can recall the names of any of them"), was determined to place a Republican stamp on what then stood as a Democratic bill. Said Martin...
...Leave Us Alone." Who extended the invitation, how far the Russians mean to go in accepting it, and how irreversible the present course is, remain to be seen. In Cairo, where he hustled off early last week to ease his ulcer and talk to Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, Syria's President Shukri el Kuwatly, a moderate rightist but also something of a weakling, vehemently denied that his country was turning Communist. The U.S., said El Kuwatly, "should leave us alone." But El Kuwatly's own attempt to keep a check on the rise...
...last week Mrs. Oka's green flag fluttered in Iwano's square, and not a woman was to be seen in the rice fields, the woodsheds or the poultry pens; instead they strolled about the streets, rested in bed or chattered happily away over cups of green tea at Mrs. Oka's house. Iwano's 500 men bustled about cooking lunch, washing dishes, and bending wearily over the rice fields. The mothers-in-law, unhappiest of all, sat back grimly, arms folded, refused either to work or consort with the archtraitor Oka, who had incited such...
...View, New Facts. By noon, Simons was up to about 102,000 ft. (exact height is still being checked) and looked upon a view no man had seen before. The horizon was 400 miles away. Overhead the sky was dark. The earth was a lifeless blob delicately dissected by rivers and lakes. Reported Sightseer Simons: "It was as though all the color had been washed...