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Humphrey won election to the Senate that year, and no sooner had he been sworn in than he rose to lace into his Senate colleagues. "What people want," he cried, "is for the Senate to function! Sometimes I think we become so cozy-we feel so secure in our six-year term-that we forget that the people want things done...
Among the few who had already recognized that there were real gifts behind Hubert's gab was Texas' Lyndon Johnson, who had been sworn into the Senate on the same day as Humphrey. "I wish I could be that boy's trainer," Johnson once remarked of Humphrey. Now, realizing that Humphrey was ready to accept some training, Johnson sought out the Minnesotan. "Hubert," he said, "I want you to meet the people around here who count." Humphrey took to talking with Georgia's wise old Senator Walter George, who had been among the first to scorn...
Some people, who otherwise believe strongly in the future of pay TV, are doubtful about Weaver's venture because they think that he may be starting too fast, promising an aggregate of twelve hours of programming a day on his three "channels." He also needs votes. The sworn foes of subscription TV are so active in California that they have succeeded in placing an initiative on the November ballot, through which voters may vote pay TV out of existence by effecting the repeal of the act that originally sanctioned the subscription project. The foes are chiefly admen, theater operators...
...hadn't been so hot, Italians might have noticed that a new government -their 25th since 1943 - had been sworn in somewhere in the middle of last week. If it had been a new government, that is. As it was, Dio mio, there wasn't much to notice except the hottest summer in a decade. And storm warnings that a full-scale political crisis might...
...shall replace has distorted and lost that faith. It has talked and talked and talked and talked the words of freedom, but it has failed and failed and failed in the works of freedom. Failures proclaim lost leadership, obscure purpose, weakening wills and the risk of inciting our sworn enemies to new aggressions and to new excesses...