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Help from Hubert. In the interim, Dirksen met almost daily with his top legal aides?three experts on constitutional rights and administrative procedure?and the four men picked the House bill apart. After weeks, they had accumulated a sheaf of some 70 amendments, many technical, some substantive. This was the em-ryonic Dirksen "substitute package...
Melville could not get a publisher for his first sheaf of poems, but in 1866 Harper's published a collection called Battle Pieces. It was a distinctly civilian poetizing of the Civil War, notable for the rhyming of "Shiloh" with "lie low," and such sentiments...
...lone dissenter on the committee, Prof. Lewis F. Manly, chairman of the economics department, questioned the wisdom of the report. "It gives the impression that the only way a young man can get tenure is to run around with a sheaf of publications," he said in an interview yesterday. The report should have been deferred, Manly said, "until people have calmed down...
...individual, Du Plessis is quite eager to discuss the great question about South Africa: When asked whether peaceful change is possible, he picked up a sheaf of papers and read a quote from Chief Albert Luthuli: "How long before, out of the depths they cry, 'If the man of peace does not prevail, give us the men of blood'?" His jaw tensed, and he read the quote again, lingering a moment on "blood." He is not optimistic that "the men of blood" can be restrained. The government's policies have annihilated the moderates like Luthuli; in its growing extremism...
Basement Brooder. His aides began scrounging for "new ideas" to work into his speech. Stevenson brought down a sheaf of suggestions. The State Department produced a blizzard of memos. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. phoned Pundit Walter Lippmann to ask what the President might discuss. McGeorge Bundy brooded in the White House basement, jotting occasional thoughts on yellow legal paper. The final drafting was left mainly to Speechwriter Ted Sorensen, who was still scribbling away as he flew with Kennedy to Manhattan on the eve of the speech...