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Most observers feel that Mansfield has the votes (51) to pass the repeal bill, but not enough (67) to stop a filibuster. Why not just postpone everything for next session? If that is done, the bill becomes the first order of business for the new Senate in January, and Dirksen has promised to be just as adamant then...
...Government has until next week to file its brief against a new trial. Meantime, FBI agents have been scurrying around Chattanooga questioning everyone named in the affidavits. The Justice Department plans to ask a Tennessee federal grand jury now in session to investigate charges of "massive perjury" in connection with Hoffa's latest -and gamiest-bid to stay out of jail...
...General Assembly President Alex Quaison-Sackey, resplendent in a Ghanaian toga of orange and gold, "that I welcome all representatives present." Relief was the operative word. It had been Quaison-Sackey's fate to preside over what Britain's Lord Caradon had rightly called the "lost session" of the U.N. General Assembly. Not since December 1963 had the Assembly been able to discuss issues freely or to vote on them. But as the white and lavender saris of Indians commingled with the rainbowed robes of Nigerians and the white jodhpurs of the Nepalese at the opening...
...Pope's host will be a familiar face: Italian Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani, 57, elected president of the General Assembly's 20th session soon after it was gaveled to order last week. Fanfani, twice Premier of Italy, who won out over Yugoslavia's former Foreign Minister Koca Popovic, is the first Western European since 1960 to head the Assembly...
Nowadays, the classic Stanford-Binet and the Wechsler-Bellevue IQ tests are given only when educators need to pinpoint the mental ability of someone who seems unusually gifted or retarded and so needs special guidance. They must be administered by an expert and require a session of one hour for each student. Much more common are group intelligence tests (experts prefer to call them "scholastic aptitude" tests) such as the Otis Mental Ability test, which comes in an all-picture version for Grades 1 to 4 and with multiple choice questions for Grades...