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...been a conscientious freshman Senator. He worked on two important committees, developing specialties within them where he exercised some influence. He chaired a subcommittee which drew up a package of bills designed to help the aged. He worked on the urban mass transportation bill and helped co-ordinate Massachusetts' transit program with the government's. He helped collect support for cloture and the civil rights bill and devoted his only major Senate speech to it, just before a plane crash hospitalized him this summer. His voting record has been a strong one, particularly since his brother was assassinated...
...Lenin. The story, as you recall, said that the Order of Lenin was pinned on Khrushchev by President Leonid Brezhnev, and that Khrushchev's colleagues saluted him as a "militant leader, a fiery tribune, giving his burning energy in the service of the cause of Communism." Sic transit gloria...
...Senator Goldwater's candidacy, has become the liberal's choice by default. As an overly ambitious Lieutenant-Governor, Bellotti did his best to defeat every progressive program put forward by his Governor. He opposed repealing capital punishment, reforming the tax structure, curbing the Governor's Council, and reorganizing the transit authority. What good Peabody did, he did without, and usually against, Bellotti's influence. The sheer opportunism of the Democratic candidate is astounding and inexcusable. Though he may secretly be a "gut liberal," the record does not justify electing him to find...
...Norfolk, Va., the estate of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, who died in April at 84, was appraised at $2,131,941.89, bequeathed to his widow, Jean Faircloth MacArthur. Composed primarily of securities, it included 2,205 shares of G.M. (worth $180,258.75), Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority and Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel bonds (together worth $291,007), and 1,903 shares ($34,254) in Sperry Rand Corp., whose chairman he had been since...
...idea of obtaining the MTA Yards for the library was revived after the assassination, when plans were made for a Kennedy museum and institute. Some observers felt that chances of obtaining the Yards rose with the reorganization of the MTA into the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, since several persons favorable to the Library were added to the board of directors...