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...addition to the latter two, Tag Edwards, Karl Bjork, and Jim Tulenko still remain absent from the lineup, to further cloud the midfield situation. Attackman Dub Mallonee has been suffering from a knee injury and remains a question-mark...
...floor, moved to table (i.e., kill) Knowland's motion, thereupon brought on a vote. Mike Mansfield's motion lost 41-36 (39 Republicans, plus Virginia's Harry Byrd and Ohio's Frank Lausche. voting against it), with Lyndon Johnson and twelve other sorely needed Democrats absent...
...Absent, unfortunately, is the masterly ability of a De la Mare or a Simenon to portray a Garden of Eden in which the black serpent of evil slides easily and naturally about its business. But Author Godden tells her tale neatly enough to content those who enjoy closeups of children's growing pains and the clashes of innocence and experience...
General Norstad's reception was symptomatic of congressional lollygagging on both foreign aid and foreign trade. The Capitol Hill attitude was best summed up by one of the absent committee members, Montana's Mike Mansfield, who prides himself on being a leading Democratic light on foreign relations. "The Administration," said Mansfield last week, "is pushing foreign aid, and for that matter foreign trade, as paramount issues at the very moment the people are much more interested in unemployment compensation and public works." By way of showing that he stands second to none in taking care of the folks...
...tightrope, Nixon has made himself the most useful vice president in history. He has taken six trips abroad as the President's representative, and a Latin American tour is planned for this spring. He presides over both the National Security Council and the Cabinet when Ike is absent. He has consistently gone all-out for Administration programs, even those that are unpopular with large and powerful Republican groups; e.g., Nixon is a leading spokesman for foreign aid and liberalized foreign trade...