Word: senatore
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Few Kind Words. The most impressive battery of expert arguments brought together since the debate began appeared in modest lithograph form. It was a 340-page report by 16 scientists and other experts organized last February by Senator Edward Kennedy, a leader of the ABM critics. Jointly edited by M.I.T...
The U.S. Code requires the registration of all lobbyists who plead before Congress, but the law is so full of loopholes that probably more do not register than do. Until this year, one of the most effective lobbies, the National Rifle Association, did not consider it necessary to admit that...
Unhappily, Congress itself violates the most elementary rules of conduct. In the early 1960s, for example, Missouri Senator Edward Long accepted $160,000 from a lawyer who had spent most of his life representing gangsters and gamblers. Finally persuaded to look into the matter, the Senate ethics committee found nothing...
In Washington, the Goldwater team will join Capitol Hill's other family acts, including Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington and his guitar-strumming Congressman son James and Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen and his son-in-law, Republican Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee. Goldwater and Son promises...
Americans have used the word for only about 60 years. It is frequently applied on the basis of fashion, folklore and snobbery. An invisible admissions committee rules out most conservatives-except, perhaps, a William F. Buckley or a Milton Friedman. "Liberal" and "intellectual" are thought to meld nicely. Among scientists...