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Emboldened by Simpson and Goldwater, Midwestern committeemen opened another file cabinet, urged the firing of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, whom they blame for the heavy G.O.P. losses in the Midwest. At that point Alcorn got the anti-Benson motion tabled, closed the two-day session on a note of hearty approval for the Alcorn program...
...permitting the showing of the Nat "King" Cole film China Gate, and even protested when a soccer team from Hong Kong played in Rangoon. And so in Burma Tito got a formal 21-gun salute and the usual round of dinners and conferences, but he cut short his two-day visit by five hours...
...major objections. By limiting to 25 the number of resolutions introduced and lengthening to three days the plenary session at which these are considered, the Committee feels that each resolution will have adequate discussion. Previously as many as 120 resolutions have been passed in a two-day session...
...Farmer Sellers, 37th and final Negro witness at a two-day fact-finding hearing of the Federal Civil Rights Commission, concluded his testimony last week, Father Hesburgh was not the only disturbed member of the six-man commission. Authorized 15 months ago by Congress, the panel had been hand-picked by the White House, with an oversensitive attention to balance between three Northerners and three Southerners...
Before the last star has faded on the horizon, on every day, seven days a week, Alex Johnson, 60, a husky (212 lb.), balding man from Miami, gets up, pulls on his khaki working clothes, leaves his stilt-legged house at the Tha Pra livestock station in the depressed northeastern sector of Thailand. Tha Pra, a corrugated plateau where the soil is poor and the people poorer, is a bumpy, 300-mile, two-day journey from Bangkok. It is also the worst place in the region to conduct agricultural experiments, but Alex Johnson, longtime teacher of vocational education, who retired...