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...third behind the committee to pick up documents exchanged across the table and Senator McClellan's fancy doodlings. TV-savvy committee members often delayed proceedings by delivering politics-loaded orations geared to home-state audiences, but even this, wrote one viewer, "was better than soap opera." The committeemen were also TV-wise enough to save the top witnesses until last, sprang the taped phone conversations at precisely the proper dramatic moment, drowning out racy epithets with an electronic beeper signal. Said Schearer: "The Army-McCarthy hearings had its 'Point of Order' slogan. All we've been...
...eminent medical researchers with known differences among themselves as to detailed interpretation of the facts, the five committeemen* surveyed the parade of theories whereby atherosclerosis and its fatal consequences have been successively blamed on cholesterol in one form or another, on increased fat in the diet, on animal fats and most recently on saturated fats, whether animal or vegetable (TIME, Nov. 12, 1956). They agreed that several factors-heredity, the anatomy of blood vessels, blood pressure, sex and obesity-are at least as important as dietary fat in predisposing to atherosclerosis. They were unanimous that obesity is a heavy villain...
...Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles argued the case for the Administration's foreign-aid program with so much persuasiveness that committeemen. already impressed with Ike's speech of the night before, gushed a remarkable torrent of praise. Even Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright. who had often delighted in baiting Dulles, called the revised aid program "wise and imaginative." As Dulles flushed redder than his wine-colored tie, Vermont's Republican George Aiken topped it all off. "I want to compliment you." he said, "on the compliments you have received...
...something to don't rock the boat. Even the Democratic National Committee, meeting in Washington, caught the fever. Receiving a plea from Americans for Democratic Action for adequate civil rights legislation, the committee quickly decided the message fell under the heading of "information," required no action. Instead, committeemen enthusiastically applauded the idea of making a big issue out of tax cuts...
Yardling conservatives managed to insert a clause specifying that long socks be worn with the shorts, but several committeemen still were not satisfied. "The wearing of trousers is the last thread of tradition left at Harvard," protested Robert J. Wyman '60. Harvard Union officials still must approve the rule change...