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...prize-winning storyteller, an eminent social philosopher, and a Viennese pay choanalyst will be among those offering courses when the Summer School opens its 86th session on June...
During the 86th Congress, in 1959-60, Virginia's wily old Howard Worth Smith, chairman of the Rules Committee, had made up an unsplittable conservative bloc with the committee's four Republican members plus Mississippi's William Colmer. Because most major bills require positive action by the Rules Committee, the six conservatives were able to use a 6-to-6 deadlock to stall any legislation they disliked. By adding two new Democrats and only one Republican, Sam Rayburn expected to tilt the 6-to-6 standoff to an 8-to-7 majority. So much was at issue...
...Presidents, because a powerful Rules Committee is necessary to the functioning of Congress. With its 437 members,* each armed with his own mandate from voters back home, the House is too unwieldy a body to get its work done without strict control over the flow of legislation. In the 86th Congress, the members introduced a total of 15,506 bills and resolutions, and the Senate passed an additional 957 measures that the House had to act on before they could become law. Under the "general rules" of the House, each member has a right to speak for one hour...
Postscript Fiasco. Rayburn's serious troubles with the Rules Committee flared up in the 86th Congress-despite the fact that in the 1958 congressional elections the Democrats had widened their margin in the House to nearly 2 to 1, most lopsided majority since the 19303. What made the Rules Committee more troublesome than before was that Rayburn could no longer get any cooperation from the Republicans. Compromiser Joe Martin was deposed from the Republican leadership by Indiana's tough, uncompromising Charlie Halleck (and last week registered his vote against Halleck and for Rayburn). Halleck filled the Republican seats...
...86th birthday, Sir Winston Churchill, recovering from the fracture of a minor bone in his back from a bed room fall, abruptly announced that he intended to rise phoenixlike and have a party. When Lady Churchill and his doctors vetoed the inspiration, Britain's most eminent citizen took it quite well, spent most of the day in bed accepting personal greetings from friends, children and grandchildren, and shoveling through the blizzard of congratulations that fell upon the threshold of his London town house in Hyde Park Gate. At the family luncheon table, Sir Winston presided over a mighty repast...