Word: whips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With that, half a dozen Senators-including Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, Minority Leader Everett Dirksen and Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey-scrambled from their seats and bolted toward waiting limousines for the one-mile dash to Capitol Hill. About the only Senator left was Georgia Democrat Richard Russell, who, in the words of an envious colleague, "never moved...
...first time in anyone's memory, the grounds crew was unable to whip the Stadium track into shape for a track meet. As a result, the Harvard-Brown confrontation was canceled completely--the Bruins have three engagements during each of the next two weeks and simply can't reschedule Harvard...
Anticipating the Worst. Following Humphrey was California's Senator Thomas Kuchel, the Republican whip, who also offered urgent arguments for the bill. "This issue," said Kuchel, "should not be a partisan fight. It should be, and is, an American fight." But some powerful Republicans do have doubts about certain parts of the bill, a fact attested next day by G.O.P. Leader Everett Dirksen of Illinois. Dirksen said he had received "very substantial encouragement" from the Senate Republican Policy Committee for a dozen changes, most of them technical, in the bill's fair-employment and union-membership provisions. Dirksen...
...that reporters insisted they sometimes hit 100 m.p.h. on narrow Maryland highways trying to keep up. In 1957, vigilant state cops ordered part of the presidential motorcade to pull over, told trailing reporters they would have to obey the 55-m.p.h. limit, but allowed Ike's car to whip along up to 70 m.p.h...
When Edward Heath served as a parliamentary whip under Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the Tories squeaked through a vote by a particularly thin margin, the old man comforted the younger: "In the House of Commons, one vote is enough." Last week Ted Heath, now President of the Board of Trade, had the uncomfortable opportunity to test that axiom. The Tories, who nowadays can usually muster a majority of 80 votes or so, just barely managed to survive a vote by the wafer-thin margin...