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...Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson, a business-minded Texan, took the floor in Argentina's Chamber of Deputies last week with the official statement of U.S. policy at the Buenos Aires Economic Conference. The policy emerged mostly as a clearly reasoned plug for the kind of development job private capital and U.S. aid have been doing in Latin America, and a polite rejection of hopeful Latin American suggestions for more lavish U.S. handouts. But wedged in the middle was a mild shocker. "Military expenditures," warned the Secretary, "by their very nature act as a brake on rising living standards...
Jimmy Giuffre is a spare, soft-spoken Texan who distrusts the word jazz, but plays some of the best jazz to be heard these days-most of it of his own composition. Giuffre (pronounced joo-free) has broken the rules; he does not believe that jazz requires any particular combination of instruments, or that it needs a strong beat, or that its heart is improvisation. To addicts weaned on driving, Basie-inspired rhythm sections, Jimmy's chamois-soft contrapuntal compositions sometimes do not sound like jazz at all. But the feeling is there-a folksy, blues-drenched feeling, timeless...
...remeasured, the crosscurrents analyzed, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson calculated that it was time to come out of the wings and exercise his superb cloakroom skill in the name of moderation. Johnson's goal: enactment of a compromise civil rights bill that most of the South could swallow (including Texan Lyndon Johnson), that Dick Russell would not filibuster against, and that Bill Knowland and Northern Democrats could hold up as a symbol of civil rights progress...
...Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson took a hard look at this session's Senate accomplishments, found that "by the standard of achievement, I think my colleagues on both sides of the aisle are entitled to congratulations." Passed, reported Texan Johnson, were "26 more important bills," including the Middle East resolution and establishment of the International Atomic Energy Agency as well as price supports for long staple cotton and a poultry-inspection law. (Probable losses: school aid, statehood for Hawaii and Alaska, a postal increase and U.S. membership in the world-trade fostering Organization for Trade Cooperation.) "Of course...
With that, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Texas' Junior Senator Ralph Yarborough swung into action on Capitol Hill, asked Congress to help in curbing "uncontrolled" oil imports. Said Texan Yarborough: "The situation for our independent producers has become a one-way street leading to oblivion." Johnson announced that he had word that President Eisenhower himself would intervene in the case to curb oil imports "threatening national security...