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What, asked a reporter, did Meany think about the likelihood that Harlem Democrat Adam Clayton Powell Jr. will become chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee next year? "Terrible," said forthright George Meany. "He has a bad voting and absentee record. He uses his position to stir up racial hatred. It's terrible to think that we will have a man like that as chairman...
...Liberalism on the national scene must be dramatized to catch hold," he says. "When people have enough, as they do now, they tend to accept the status quo. To articulate the need for economic growth, for example, you may have to be overdramatic as an advocate to stir up the people. If you don't do that, you don't get your message through." Humphrey is prepared to go forth into Wisconsin with all the sound and fury at his command and stir up the people. The election results, on April 5, will tell whether Hubert Humphrey...
...good-will tour. "Hindi Russi bhai bhai [Indians and Russians are brothers]," cried Voroshilov at the airport, and Nehru gaily clutched the arm of the stalwart lady standing beside him, Mrs. Ekaterina Furtseva, member of the Soviet Communist Party's Presidium. Nehru had worked hard to stir up a welcome that would not compare too unfavorably with Ike's great reception, but Voroshilov's welcome was plainly not so spontaneous. Reason for Nehru's solicitude: he regards Russia as on his side in helping to restrain Peking's ambitions...
...After all the stir, Negroes never wanted to go to school with white people to begin with," Hodges concluded...
...also a lifelong economic technician without political experience, who took the job "without joy," is less likely to stir up Cabinet debates than Pinay. His appointment was a clear sign of the way the De Gaulle government is trending. Fired up once again with his old contempt for "political games," De Gaulle was steadily cleansing his government of men with independent political strength, replacing them with technicians who are able-but technicians...