Word: returning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breakfast meeting with 16 G.O.P. Senators, Ike vowed to "leave a heritage of an honest dollar." If necessary, he said, he would even cut short his June visit to Russia to return to Washington and fight for his budget. After posing for press pictures with his breakfast guests on the north portico of the White House, the President turned to Illinois' Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, wagged a finger, and publicly laid down a challenge to congressional Democrats. "Remember." said Ike, "one-third and one - that's the watchword." Translation: to defeat Democratic spending programs, the President...
WELFARE: "The recipient of welfarism . . . mortgages himself to the federal government. In return for benefits-which, in the majority of cases, he pays for-he concedes to the government the ultimate in political power-the power to grant or withhold from him the necessities of life as the government sees...
Last week in Manhattan's Foley Square courthouse, the case of United States of America v. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. went to the jury. Charged with filing a fraudulent 1951 income tax return for his estranged wife. Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott, Powell faced a theoretical $10,000 fine, five years in jail. The long-delayed case, which had been under federal investigation for more than four years, was haphazardly prosecuted by the Government; two of three original charges against Powell were thrown out during the trial when the government failed to support the charges. Powell himself was brilliantly defended...
...defeated on a technical vote of no confidence, Senanayake gave up, asked Ceylon's Governor General Sir Oliver Goonetilleke to dissolve Parliament and call new elections in July. By then, Senanayake hoped, Ceylon's voters would be less susceptible to an overwrought widow's overworked tears, return the U.N.P. with a workable majority...
...Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The hopeful progress of Dr. Tom Dooley, who has devoted his life to medical work among the natives of Laos. "Biography of a Cancer" reports his trip to the U.S. for surgery and his return to Laos, as an example of man's fight against the disease...