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...decade ago, domestic legislation had been laid aside when Dr. Win-the-War, as F.D.R. phrased it, replaced Dr. New Deal. After the war. Harry Truman adopted the tactic of asking Congress for what he knew it would refuse. He berated the 80th Congress (Republican) as "do-nothing." The 81st and 82nd Congresses (Democratic) also did little...
Meanwhile, Choreographer Balanchine is busy polishing two brand-new ballets (his 80th and 81st), which will have their premieres later this season. They will give collectors of Balanchine paradoxes fresh material for study, for they are as dissimilar in substance as any two ballets in the man's repertory. One. a severe abstraction, set to the strains of Atonalist Arnold Schoenberg's Opus 34. fits the music so closely that it seems to simplify the score. But the dance movements themselves are so involved that balletomanes will be arguing about it for a long time...
...after refusing to reveal the backers of his Constitution al Educational League. Bagdikian also set forth that Facts Forum tells its members how to get on the mailing list of such organizations as Merwin K. Hart's National Economic Council, described by the Buchanan Lobbying Committee of the 81st Congress as a group that attempts "to disparage those who oppose its objectives by appeals to religious prejudice, often an ill-concealed anti-Semitism." In Manhattan, where a Forum unit v/as formed, the first meeting was addressed by Allen Zoll. whose American Patriots, Inc. was listed by the Attorney General...
...Senator has always headed the committee. The first chairman, in the Republican 80th Congress, was Iowa's steady, hard-working Bourke B. Hickenlooper. In the Democratic 81st, Connecticut's yeasty Brien McMahon took over, to serve until he died last July. House members insist that there was an "understanding" that the chairmanship would alternate between the Senate and the House. (They let McMahon serve out of turn because he had sponsored the act establishing the committee.) Senate members don't seem to recall any such understanding...
Celebrating his 81st birthday at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, former Secretary of State Cordell Hull got a birthday cake, spent the rest of the day reading, listening to the radio, visiting with his wife and friends...