Word: senlis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...review the entire budget. As a result some Congressmen have consistently blocked expenditures the District wanted to make. The classic example is the action of Rep. Andrew Natcher (D-Tenn.), chairman of the House District appropriations subcommittee, whose resistance has prevented replacement of the dilapidated Shaw Junior High School. Sen Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.), head of the corresponding Senate subcommittee, has made welfare payments--particularly to parents of illegitimate children--his special target...
...Sen. McCarthy, in a speech in Wheeling, W. Va., charges that the State Department is "full of Communists," launching the "McCarthy-Era" investigations of subversive activity in the federal government and higher education...
...November--Sen. Jenner's Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security announces plans to investigate Communists in the nation's colleges and universities...
November--Sen. McCarthy calls Furry before his committee in New York. Furry, in his third appearance before a Congressional hearing, refuses to answer questions under the protection of the fifth amendment, McCarthy threatens him with contempt of Congress procedings...
...surface, Athens was calm last week: no new Prime Minister was cho sen, none was dismissed, and the Greeks, who consider politics a national sport easily as worthy of conversation as football, discussed in shops and streets the possible candidates with detached excitement. The very lack of news was impossible to ignore, for unless some resolution was found to the month-long confrontation between King Constantine and ex-Premier George Papandreou, the field lay open to military coup from the right or armed revolt from the left. Young King Constantine appeared more determined than ever to refuse Papandreou...