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...move was announced, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a 3,000,000-ton, Government-subsidized shipment of American wheat and sorghum to drought-stricken India. The plan, proposed by the President and guided through Congress by Wilson, will spur business on the floor of the exchange. Clearly, knowledgeable Washingtonian Wilson, when he takes over in Chicago on June 1, should not have to learn the territory...
Most references to the war bring a doleful shrug or headshake. "Nobody feels he can do anything about it," said a Washingtonian, "so it comes out as a kind of reluctant support." Professional opinion samplers documented the confusion. A survey by social scientists from the University of Chicago and Stanford University found that most Americans still share a visceral instinct that the U.S. should not withdraw. How ever, said Western Pollster Don Muchmore, "there is a complete lack of belief that we can win. People wish we'd never gotten in, but say we've got to continue...
...Attorney General, he asked Lyndon Johnson to name Morrissey to the federal court. Morrissey's cause has been pressed since then by Teddy Kennedy, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, who has had a particularly close relationship with the old family factotum. "Teddy's attitude toward Morrissey," says one Washingtonian who knows both men, "is something like that of a boy toward his old governess...
Work on the address began weeks ago, but Johnson is apparently still working overtime on it. He is not expected to repeat any of the themes of the State of the Union speech. As one Washingtonian put it. "He can't afford to miss badly with this one, because of the inevitable comparison with Kennedy...
...hard-pressed to explain the Washingtonian's meekness in the face of the most faceless manifestation of our legal system. One possible explanation is that, in the nation's capital, respect for legality is natural...