Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massachusetts Democrat Jack Kennedy, Senate sponsor (with New York's Republican Irving Ives) snapped back that Mitchell, for all of his ringing statements, had "never lifted a finger" to help get Republican support for the bill. On the other hand, said Kennedy, the National Association of Manufacturers, after discovering features objectionable to management in the bill, had flooded the House with "intemperate, exaggerated and misleading attacks." Speaker Rayburn chimed in to explain that he sat on the bill 41 days in hope of rounding up votes enough to suspend House rules and bypass Barden's committee. That gambit...
...NATO Council, De Gaulle continued to call for private five-power chats, somewhere in Europe in the "necessary conditions of objectivity and serenity," and never mind about gathering a U.N. crowd-where somebody might want to bring up Algeria. De Gaulle had less success seeking Rome and Bonn support to speak for continental Europe. Italy's new Premier, Amintore Fanfani, a U.S. visitor last week, was selling an old Italian idea that in one form or another had some chance of adoption: a Western-sponsored Middle East development plan, operated through...
...Anglo-American forces get out immediately, and that the great powers bind themselves not to intervene militarily in the Middle East from now on. He might get further mileage out of proposing an embargo on arms shipments to the area, knowing that the West would not abandon arms support of the Northern Tier of nations. The U.S., to accent the positive, would propose, among other things, an international economic development fund for the Middle East and a strengthening of U.N. capabilities to deal with "indirect aggression...
...portrayal of Ally is remarkable; and the part is unusually long and demanding. Teena Starr is appealing as the young, lonely widow. Avril Gentles holds Sophie under control much of the time, but has a tendency to push her acting into burlesque. Donna Person and Edward Finnegan provide outstanding support...
...military, though not ready to march, is plainly unhappy about the Communist-coddling tactics of one of the military's own: Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, chief of the country's ruling junta, who is apparently trying to line up enough popular support to become a "unity" candidate for President in the Nov. 30 election. In a series of quiet meetings, top officers drew up a paper complaining about the "shameful events" of the Nixon visit, demanding that Communists and far leftists be fired from government posts. The military had not decided where or when...