Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...conference committees, who are in league with the old men in the House." A filibuster was promptly launched against the $210 million project by Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, who opposes the SST on cost and ecological grounds. He was joined by Democratic presidential prospect Edmund Muskie. Republican Leader Hugh Scott marshaled a vote to choke off the filibuster, but it fell far short of the two-thirds vote required...
...week, and by the fact that Senators sometimes take the floor for windy speeches designed only for home consumption while national business has to wait. Plotting during dinners, the four honed their proposals. They then consulted their senatorial elders, mainly the two party leaders, Democrat Mike Mansfield and Republican Hugh Scott. "We didn't want them to think that this was a revolt by upstart freshmen," explained Schweiker. Mansfield and Scott encouraged them to go ahead...
Married. Nancy Sinatra, 30, kittenish pop singer (These Boots Are Made for Walking); and Hugh Lambert, 40, TV choreographer; both for the second time; in a Roman Catholic ceremony in Cathedral City, Calif. The wedding was held on Papa Frank's birthday, explained Nancy, "since Daddy likes to give things away on his birthday...
...April 1970, as a result of discussions with committees of the Faculty of Arts and Selences and after consultation with President Bunting, President Pusey appointed a committee consisting of two Fellows of Harvard College, Francis H. Burr and Hugh Calkins, two Radcliffe Trustees, Mrs. Carl J. Gilbert and Mrs. James Donovan, and President Bunting and himself, ex officio, to advise with respect to the relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe...
...things are changing," Republican Leader Hugh Scott told his Senate colleagues not long ago. "And we are changing with them. Omnia mutantur, et nos mutamur in illis." Right on, Senator Scott! Congress may be changing, but at what a pace. About as often as the planet Pluto swings around the sun, Congress does indeed bestir itself, examines the archaic rules by which it conducts the nation's business and gently blows away some of the accumulated dust of more than 180 years. But never enough to disturb one tradition -the hallowed rule of seniority-that has often prevented Congress...