Word: whips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Louisiana's Democratic Senator Russell Long has been in the U.S. Senate for 17 years, and seems assured of remaining there as long as he wants the job. As Democratic whip, he is Mike Mansfield's heir apparent to the Senate's majority leadership. In addition, with the resignation of Virginia Democrat Harry Byrd (TIME, Nov. 19), Long, the ranking Democrat on Byrd's powerful Senate Finance Committee, will automatically become committee chairman when Congress reconvenes in January. Seldom in Senate history has one man held two such pivotal posts, and there were hints last week...
...only Senator to suggest publicly that Long step down as whip has been Arizona's Carl Hayden. Long was not about to take the hint. In Baton Rouge last week, he threw down the gauntlet. "If they don't want me to do it," he said, "they'll have to fire...
...years, as the Virginian has become increasingly infirm, Louisiana's Russell Long has taken on much of the load of the Finance Committee while shepherding several Great Society bills through the Senate. As Byrd's successor, Long-who inherited Hubert Humphrey's job as Senate majority whip-will hold one of the Senate's most powerful positions. Though personally volatile and politically unpredictable, Long, 47, has a record of populist liberalism that will undoubtedly be more in harmony with the legislative goals of the Johnson Administration than was Byrd's gentlemanly conservatism...
...Hicks and her disciples whip up such a political turmoil for small political peanuts like the School Committee? Mrs. Hicks insists that she honestlybelieves in neighborhood schools. Instead it is probably safe to say that all five members-elect are genuinely afraid of Negroes...
...automobile explosion would eventually overtake the country's highway system and bring traffic to a full stop. They did not allow for U.S. enterprise. On the East Coast, the continent's most congested traffic corridor and the world's biggest urban sprawl, a motorist can now whip along the 435-mile route between Washington and Boston without ever encountering a stop light...