Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growing pressure from constituents to do something about Powell. Brooklyn Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler, for one, considers Powell "as obnoxious as a crocodile," but thinks that to expel him - which the House could do by a two-thirds majority - would be "foolish." Powell, whose constituents elected him to a twelfth term in November with 74% of the vote, would, says Celler, "be elected all over again...
...Congressmen believe that keeping a member out really punishes his constituents by depriving them of a voice, and Powell's velvety, bourbon-cured baritone is clearly the voice that pleases Harlem's voters. In November, though aware of his defiance of the courts, they gave him a twelfth term with 74% of the vote. To them, "Old Adam," preacher, politician and perennial bon vivant, is a supremely satisfying symbol-a Negro who has managed to outplay Whitey at his own game. Still, Powell is so widely detested in the House that precedent may provide him with no pillow...
When he signed the bill creating the twelfth Cabinet-rank federal agency last month, Lyndon Johnson gave no nod, verbal or cranial, to the man who had worked hardest to create the Administration's long-sought Department of Transportation. Alan Stephenson Boyd stood stoically aside while the President praised others and declared gratuitously that he was looking for a "strong man" to head DOT. Last week Johnson announced his choice: Alan Boyd, 44, former chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board who, as Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation, had devoted his days since June 1965 to the task...
...Camaro, a frank copy of Mustang, to go along with the Corvair Monza which had been its interim lower-priced specialty car. In February, Pontiac, which already has the Tempest GTO model, will bring out its brand-new Firebird-also being built in a crash program-as the twelfth entry in the specialty field...
...seems destined to be called) starts life as the fourth-largest department in the Government, bringing together 32 scattered federal agencies, from the Bureau of Public Roads and the Federal Aviation Agency to the Alaska Railroad and the Great Lakes Pilotage Administration. Beset by myriad pressures, Congress stripped the twelfth Cabinet-level department of many logical functions, including control of the heavily subsidized maritime industry and of route-regulating powers. Still, DOT is a first healthy step toward substituting coherent plans for the decades-old tangle of inconsistent and obsolete rules that govern U.S. transportation...