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...them aside until next year. It took the committee months of floundering to settle on a measure to finance highway construction. Faced with President Eisenhower's request for removal of interest-rate ceilings on long-term Treasury bonds. Mills proposed three different solutions. failed to muster adequate support for any of them, wearily gave up fortnight ago and postponed any further action on the President's request for the rest of the session...
Hamstrung by the arrest of their chiefs and also by the defection of the Praja-Socialists, who used to join them but have been wary since Tibet, the Reds were unable to fill the streets with raging thousands, could muster on successive days only a few hundred, who were carted off to jail still waving red flags and shouting slogans. Communist agitators pleaded with the onlooking crowds to lie in the streets in passive resistance, but won no volunteers...
Last week the G.O.P.-Southern Democratic House coalition got behind sterner, identical bills filed by Georgia Democrat Phil Landrum and Michigan Republican Robert Griffin. In an advance nosecount, the coalition could only muster 209 votes for Landrum-Griffin-ten short of the 219 needed to win. Results:1) the President decided to take to TV to demand reform of labor inequities-"a national disgrace," and 2) Virginia Democrat Howard Smith, Chairman of the Rules Committee, stalled the mild Elliott bill just long enough so that the President could make his speech, and public reaction could pile up before floor debate...
There were handshakes all round, but there was no playing of anthems, no crowd of the kind the U.S.S.R. can muster for a visiting Mongolian. Imperturbably, Nixon read through his short airport speech, drawing extemporaneously on his freshly learned stock of Russian proverbs ("Better to see once than hear a hundred times"). As the party set out for the U.S. embassy, Nixon stopped long enough to shake hands with bystanding Russians in the manner that had served him well through Britain, Asia, Latin America and Africa. But the Russians had not the slightest idea...
...call themselves the "Horsemen of the East." On paper, another outfit called the "AntiCommunist Foreign Legion" has 100,000 bureaucrats, ex-soldiers and foreign mercenaries, including a few veterans of the Spanish Blue Division. The legion drills weekly on a Ciudad Trujillo fairground in trim new uniforms, could probably muster 16,000 with arms. Though the dictator's vast bureaucracy and army are shot through with men who secretly oppose him, these men see no reasonable alternative...