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...President took the wheel of his station wagon and, horn a-honk-ing, led a six-car cavalcade of guests and newsmen through herds of frightened cattle, sheep and horses. With Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, he hammed it up for photographers by trying to corral a mournful-looking steer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: All Around the Park | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

...Germanic Languages Departments to grant carefully screened applicants junior-year-abroad under the Wayne State or Sweetbriar programs. In 1961 the authorization was extended to the History and Literature Department. Concentrators in all other fields are left high and dry, unless they can persuade their department chairman to steer the individual request through the Committee on Educational Policy and the Administrative Board--bureaucratic channels of which most undergraduates are unaware...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sweetbriar, and Not Harvard? | 11/14/1964 | See Source »

Even when Hubert got carried away -as he did at a Cleveland steer roast, when he urged his audience to "send up to heaven" a resounding Democratic victory that John Kennedy could hear -it didn't seem offensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vice-Presidency: The Happy Warrior | 11/4/1964 | See Source »

...thirty-six years of service as Congressional representative from Massachusetts' ninth district, John McCormack has consistently led the fight in the House for passage of social legislation and other liberal measures. As Sam Rayburn's able assistant, McCormack helped steer through the 1940 Selective Service Act, the Lend-Lease Act and the Marshall Plan. As Speaker of the House he has been instrumental in passing bills in support of civil rights, tax reduction, conservation, and the war on poverty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCormack for Congress | 10/31/1964 | See Source »

Warning the men to steer clear of any further racial clashes, Pike County Circuit Judge W. H. Watkins Jr. said he suspended the sentences because the men were "mostly young; all came from good families who were shocked at their involvement; and deserved another chance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Student Among 13 Arrested In McComb During 'Freedom Vote' | 10/24/1964 | See Source »

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