Word: stevenson
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...tube. He dropped out of Columbia's graduate psychology department 20 years ago to produce local TV sports programs in New York City. A liberal Democrat who grew up on Republican Long Island, he got into politics in 1960 as an organizer of the Draft Stevenson movement. After working as the unpaid television adviser in John Lindsay's successful 1965 mayoral campaign, he plunged full-time into political consulting...
...Charlie McCarthur are as interesting as the tales of life as a New Deal Democrat in Chicago society (one socialite slapped her for opposing Alf Landon). The experiences of later years take on more significance: discussing with Truman the idea of dismissing General McArthur, urging a reluctant Adlai Stevenson to seek the nomination...
...decision to abolish the committee was a part of reorganization of the whole Senate committee system. The reorganization plan, embodied in S. Res. 4, was the outcome of two years of research by the Temporary Select Committee on Committees chaired by Adlai Stevenson III (D.-III.). The resolution took effect February 4. The thrust of the plan was to consolidate and rationalize an overgrown system which had last been reorganized some 30 years before. In addition, there was general agreement that before 1977 senators were spread too thin over the mass of committees and subcommittees and thus could not effectively...
...Stevenson's method of attack was, not surprisingly, two-fronted. First, he proposed to consolidate committees along functional lines. This meant redefining the jurisdictions of committees and eliminating some special, select, and joint committees. Generally it was a cut and paste job aimed at pulling together into 15 major standing committees the major substantive issues of the nation. Many of the jurisdictional assignments made since the last committee reorganization had been arbitrary. Second, Stevenson's bill as introduced would have limited each senator to membership on two standing and one select or special committee, and to only two subcommittees...
...reigning Bruins, for their part, return a solid group from last season's 7-C Ivy squad. Coach Cliff Stevenson lost top pro draft choices forward Fred Per eira and Mark Griffith, and goalie Dave Flaschen, but when you have one of the top teams in the country...