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...Bricker amendment serial ran on and on, and Georgia's veteran Democratic Senator Walter George was fed up. When the White House turned down his substitute amendment (TIME, Feb. 8), George rumbled: "There is no hope for compromise now." He took his proposal to the Senate floor and pressed for a vote. But in the U.S. Senate last week, patience was a necessary virtue-and Walter George would have to wait until a few more chapters ran their course. Among last week's episodes...
...vast and vital field of federal-state relationships would challenge a dozen "Pat" Manions-but has not been given the full-time attention of even one. Manion has been busy with other things; his proud boast is that he has spoken for the Bricker amendment in all the 48 states. Meanwhile, his commission has languished. Of 78 federal grant-in-aid programs that Manion himself believes should be studied, work has started on only three. With the commission's report due March i, an extension of time must be requested...
...Administration does not intend to fire Manion, despite his intemperate attacks on opponents of the Bricker amendment. But it is no secret that everyone from the President on down would like to see him resign or else get to work with his commission and quit gold-Brickering...
Congressmen who didn't know what to say about the Bricker amendment were decisive and articulate-and undivided-on the coffee issue. The Senate started an investigation. The House thought it had better start one, too. The President of the U.S. (who drinks 2½ cups a day, while Mrs. Eisenhower drinks five) announced that the Federal Trade Commission was trying to get to the bottom of the coffee price rise...
...midst of the fight over the Bricker amendment last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) came a brand-new proposal. It rejected Bricker's plan because it did not go to the "root of the problem," suggested instead an amendment to the Constitution that could force the President to resign from office if Congress disapproved (by a two-thirds majority) any agreement he signed with a foreign power. Then Congress would elect a new President. The suggestion might have been considered harebrained had it not come from the most widely syndicated political pundit in the U.S. The pundit: Columnist David Lawrence...