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Back on Capitol Hill, Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson saw opportunity: REA was one of those rare issues where Democrats of the South would likely stick together with other Democrats around the compass. They decided they could muster the necessary two-thirds vote to override the veto and doubly defeat the President. Republican Leader Everett Dirksen and Ike's other lieutenants in the Senate were in glum agreement; with the help of six farm-bloc minded Republicans (Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper. South Dakota's Francis Case and Karl Mundt, North Dakota...
...Congress. One subject not originally on the agenda caused the most heat. The subject: Tibet. "The Tibetan reactionaries," sneered Premier Chou Enlai, "often put on pious airs and express the hope that everyone will go to heaven. But they have turned Tibet into a hell on earth." Another speaker charged that "the British imperialists and Indian expansionists instigated the Tibetan upper-strata reactionary clique to carry out a traitorous armed rebellion . . . We want to warn the Indian expansionists . . . Please be more clear-minded; do not lift a rock that will squash your own feet...
Despite its generally cordial atmosphere, the dinner witnessed one clash of opinion when first speaker Lt. Governor Robert F. Murphy, a recent critic of Governor Foster Furcolo's proposed sales tax, launched another attack on the Governor...
...address, but his conviction, humor, and obvious anxiety to persuade his listeners soon won their support. The Cuban leader's frequently disarming unfamiliarity with English made him turn occasionally to an interpreter, and once he even drew help from a member of the audience. Dean Bundy, who introduced the speaker on behalf of the Law School forum and the University, seemed rather out of place as he shared the elevated platform with the Latin revolutionary and his bearded attendants...
Arthur S. Flemming, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and principal speaker at the group's meeting last Saturday, said that colleges should raise their salaries in order to attract "the kind of people needed to provide leadership in an educational community...