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...refuse to let you make me a class-B citizen," thundered the minority leader. Dirksen was fulminating against an amendment to the proposed ethics code by Pennsylvania's Joseph Clark and New Jersey's Clifford Case, who wished to stiffen the relatively flaccid measure...
...Essay helps all readers to extricate themselves from a bog of frustration into a more healthy understanding of the power play. Our spines can stiffen a little as we realize that our leaders can better flash the image of a nation prepared to take care of itself with the vast majority of patriotic Americans making themselves seen and heard behind our leaders. May they guess right much of the time, stand acknowledged all of the time...
...university and the colleges to in crease student fees. Mindful of the long record of disorders at Berkeley, not to mention recent demonstrations at San Francisco State and San Jose State colleges, the legislature seems to be in a mood to let the schools stay lean until they stiffen campus discipline...
Whether Galbraith's program can be considered superb?or even modestly right?is questioned by defenders of U.S. policy. It is hard to believe, for example, that abandoning most of the countryside to the Communists?the very core of Galbraith's plan?would not embolden and stiffen them rather than give them greater reason to come to the conference table. Secure in the countryside and immune from interdiction by air, they could husband their forces and then assault the allied-held cities with far greater strength than they showed in the past two weeks. Nor is it true that...
Drained by Debate. Tory backbenchers peppered the Prime Minister's speech with caustic cries of "Hear, hear!", hoots of laughter and shouts of "Resign, resign!" Distrustful financial analysts doubted that spending had been reduced enough to stiffen the pound, and Laborites were bitterly resentful of the domestic curbs. For all the pained outcries, however, only one Cabinet member resigned-Lord Longford, leader of the House of Lords. The rest of the Cabinet, including some who had been expected to leave, stayed on with the justification that no single Cabinet department had been singled out to bear the brunt...