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...voting time, Virginians Harry Byrd and Willis Robertson, North Carolina's B. Everett Jordan and Arkansas' John McClellan simply stayed away. Explained McClellan later: "I would never vote for cloture, but I wasn't going to help those people [the Morse band]." Similarly, such anti-clo-ture Senators as West Virginia's Robert Byrd, Nevada's Howard Cannon and North Carolina's Sam Ervin delayed their appearance, recorded their no votes only after cloture was assured...
Shrewd Banker Wallenberg, however, has restricted himself to overseeing Ericsson's finances. To handle company operations, he brought in as president Sven Ture Aberg, 58, an imperturbable electrical engineer who negotiates with uncommon skill in five languages (Swedish, English, Spanish, French and German...
...play, told CRIMSON that a per-cent of the profits would be given to the elephant; $50 has been donated in advance. Gibb indicated that he was sure "the caliber of the production is such" that the group "couldn't fail to earn the money." He said the ture was fitting because the production is colossal--almost elephant sized...
...Truman's 1950 announcement that the U.S. would develop a hydrogen bomb, Seitz stood before the American Physical Society and laid it on the line for his anti-H-bomb colleagues. Said he: "Who among us will feel sinless if he has remained passively by while Western cul ture was being overwhelmed?" In his new job at the academy, Seitz plans to prod even more scientists into working for national security. Says he: "This is the way a democracy works. It depends on the private citizen making his services available in the public interest when he has something...
...ball." - Almost half a century after he entered public life, forceful, hawk-faced Carl Atwood Hatch, 72, decided to call it a day. Harried by failing eyesight, the onetime (1933-49) Democratic Senator from New Mexico reluctantly retired from the fed eral judgeship he has held since his depar ture from Washington. But mindful that appointments to the federal bench carry lifetime tenure, the crusading author of the "clean politics" act that has immortalized his name in U.S. politics still hoped to give his fellow judges an occasional helping hand in court. Said he with judicial precision: "When I retired...