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...Park Thomson, former secretary to retired House Speaker Carl Albert, to testify for five hours before a closed session of the committee. Clearly, Jaworski was determined to get to the bottom of the scandal, which could implicate scores of present and former Congressmen as well as the South Korean government...
Faced with a potential $25 million deficit, conservative Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr. and the two houses of the legislature all seek to balance the budget. They cannot get together on how to do it. Thomson, who was re-elected last year on a no-new-taxes promise, has repeatedly refused to consider any significant tax increase. The house at first agreed and approved a budget with across-the-board spending cuts, no new taxes needed. The senate killed it. Then the house passed a budget that would avoid the cuts by raising new taxes, one of them...
Hailing themselves as "the silent majority," the demonstrators included blue-collar workers-utility employees, electricians, plumbers-and their families from throughout the Northeast. Some had spent up to twelve hours in chartered buses to attend the rally. They were greeted by New Hampshire's Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr., who called them "beautiful" compared with "what I saw the first of May." The protest, organized by a pro-Seabrook group named the New Hampshire Voice of Energy, may be only the first in behalf of the facility. Vowed Daniel Tenchara, a 41-year-old pipefitter from Westport, Mass...
...East Asia," he has recited the series of questions members of McCarran's committee once fired at him with a characteristically Fairbankian sense of deadpan humor. But, as few who know him at all can fail to mention, Fairbank often compresses some of his most serious observations into what Thomson has called his "inscrutable wit." On the doorjamb of his wonderfully book-laden study in Widener, for instance, Fairbank has scrawled four words that are almost Chinese in their terseness: "People sometimes; book, never," the door reads. Fairbank's humorous but decidedly cynical meaning squeezed between the lines here...
...social change. As Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, Williams Professor of History and Political Science, who was one of Fairbank's graduate students after the war says, "Everyone would accept the view that we have a tendency to be culture-bound, but not everyone would stress it as much." And Thomson calls Fairbank an "historical pessimist" who "does not believe in the perfectibility of people or their institutions...