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There was no comfort for Lucas in the results. An almost solid phalanx of Southern Democrats stood against him. Such Administration stalwarts as Tydings of Maryland and Frank Graham of North Carolina, who was engaged in a bitter primary fight, managed to be absent. Six Democrats from western and border states voted against cloture. Lucas was able to count only 19 Democrats in his camp. From the other side of the aisle, 33 Republicans, including the ailing Vandenberg, gave Lucas more embarrassment than satisfaction by coming out loud & clear for cloture; only six Republicans turned up on the side...
...Cabinet (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS-TV). The first public meeting of the Cabinet (Secretary of State Acheson absent), from Chicago where they are part of the cast of President Truman's "nonpolitical" tour (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...gentlemen on the Council then. In a very large, impersonal group the students found it hard to make friends and tended to ban together in small cliques of men with their own special interests and positions. The most valuable element of college living was absent, they said, because a student couldn't meet men of diverse backgrounds and interests...
Since most courses are shared with graduate students, competition is heavy; but the quality of instruction and high degree of contact with faculty case the road a bit. Tutorial, however, is absent...
...review committee had bluntly reported that the loan would be "largely a bail-out of investors and certain creditors." Furthermore, out of RFC's five directors, the loan had been approved by a mere two-to-one vote (a fourth director was absent, while RFChairman Harley Hise abstained from voting because a distant cousin is married to a Texmass official...