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Kennedy knew from the first that medicare could not pass this year: a similar bill is still languishing in Wilbur Mills's House Ways and Means Committee, and Mills has no intention of letting it go to the floor. But Kennedy, still smarting under his narrow squeak in the election, thought he saw in medicare a red-hot political issue with which to bludgeon his opponents and win votes for Democratic candidates in November. Though the American Medical Association far overstated the case by calling the medicare bill socialized medicine. Kennedy equated its opposition with callous disregard of elders...
Ever since they first learned how to eavesdrop, scientists have realized that porpoises are gabby creatures. They whistle, they beep, they squeak-they always seem to have something to say. But no one could be sure whether the whales' small cousins actually talk to each other, or whether they merely use their prattle for underwater navigation-a sort of mammalian sonar. Engineers from the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. have finally decided that they do both...
Then came "Radar Sentry," a device designed to give early warning of radar traps. Resembling a miniature radio, Radar Sentry costs $40, is attached to sun visor or dashboard, and warns of an impending checkpoint by giving out a cheery burble that turns into an insistent squeak once the radar zone has been entered. At high speeds Radar Sentry is almost useless; there just isn't time to slow down before police radar has tracked the car's telltale blip. But at speeds in the lower 60s, the gadget is a fairly faithful watch-bird within...
...does that pip-squeak think he is?" raged Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse about John F. Kennedy to friends on the Senate floor. What angered Morse was that Kennedy had failed to reverse a recent order by the Eisenhower Administration that shifted a regional office of the Post Office Department from Portland to rival Seattle without first consulting him. "Kennedy is not going to get my support until I get some satisfaction," said Morse. Soon after. Morse postponed Education and Labor Committee hearings on a Kennedy-backed education bill...
...Depressed Area bill is in for "rough sledding," but Pearson thinks "it will squeak through." He said the bill would probably be badly crippled by a rider demanding appropriations for projects be reviewed every year...