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...Connor for Senator" headquarters on Palmer St. behind the Coop for a stinging four-minute speech at 2 p.m. Before several office girls hanging out of windows and a handful of expressionless passers-by, O'Connor labeled Sen. Leverett Saltonstall '14, "an ultra-conservative who advocates maintaining the status quo...
Democratic Senatorial nominee Thomas J. O'Connor yesterday accused his Republican opponent, incumbent Leverett Saltonstall '14, of "being a symbol of the status quo...
...bidding for $200 million more for military assistance (total: $1.8 billion), which the Democrats supported. In return, Halleck & Co. voted to restore U.S. aid ($515 million over ten years) to the Indus River project for India and Pakistan, a favorite liberal cause. On the strength of that quid pro quo, the coalition scored a smashing 212-173 roll-call victory, passed the aid bill to the openhanded Senate, which will likely push it close to Ike's original figure. ¶ The Senate spent half the fiscal 1961 federal budget by appropriating $40.5 billion for defense - $1 billion more than...
...church, have been negotiating about repairs. The Catholics first demanded a complete restoration of the church, but the Greeks, fearing that restorations would uncover some former Roman Catholic sites that the Greeks had plastered over during a restoration in 1810 and might so endanger their position under the status quo, have advocated limiting all work to "consolidation." The Armenians have built up their own position by playing a balance-of-power game between the other two. A technical bureau in which each of the three groups is equally represented has been set to carry out the repairs...
Khrushchev's proposal to make West Berlin a "free city," embedded in East Germany and cut off from the West, has had another result: the Insulaner have stopped grumbling about their lot and decided that the status quo is not so bad after all. The currently favorite illustration of Khrushchev's proposals: Two men are arguing. One is standing on the edge of a cliff. Says the first: "We'll compromise. Let's both take one step backward...