Word: senlis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group of 30 visited Sen. Leverett Saltonstall '14 (R-Mass.). He was vague about his position on the substance of the bill, but said he would vote for cloture. "I hope that a realistic civil rights bill goes through. I wouldn't be honest if I thought it would go through in its present form," explained Saltonstall...
...that, MacArthur was reflecting an idea that was publicly discussed as early as 1951. Tennessee's Democratic Sen ator Albert Gore, then a Congressman and member of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, had read a study of radiological warfare, issued a statement suggesting that the U.S. could sow a sanitized zone of radioactive material across the Korean neck. Says he today: "It was thoroughly panned by scientific editorial writers." In any event, explains University of California Physicist Luis Alvarez, MacArthur was in error, since the half-life of radioactive cobalt is only 5.25 years, and the material could...
...spokesman for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 said yesterday that the project "will need more square footage" now that "the concept of a Library has been widened to include the concept of an institute." He noted, however, that square footage can be increased "by building up or down as well...
...Sen. Javits closely identified the Republican Party with civil rights activities. He noted that the key votes which have enabled the current bill to reach the Senate floor have been cast by Republicans...
Javits strongly disagreed with the recent proposals of Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R-III.) to modify certain parts of the present bill, the section dealing with fair employment practices in particular. Javits applauded Dirksen's decision, however, to bring his proposals before the Republican Conference of the Senate before introducing them on the floor. "I have hopes that before he proposes his amendments he will have taken the sting out of them," Javits said...