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...world-and none left behind a less jaded audience when he finally withdrew from the concert stage. Kreisler was not only the greatest violinist of his generation, but also the last of a once common breed: his death last week, of a heart attack, just four days before his 87th birthday, marked the end of the long succession of violin virtuosos who were gifted enough to write for the instrument they played...
...Representative Wilbur Mills. It was no happenstance summons, for Kennedy well knew that Mills, as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, would be passing this year on most of the top priority items in the Administration's briefcase. Indeed, of all the members of the 87th Congress, Mills may be the most important to the Administration's legislative programs...
...across the well. McCormack must deal not only with the Republican opposition but with conservative Southern Democrats, the grey-flannel liberals and the entrenched committee chairmen. He has promised to go down the line in attempting to win passage of the Administration's legislative program. But in the 87th Congress' second session, the New Frontier legislative prospects look murky even to many New Frontiersmen. Not so to Speaker McCormack. His prediction: "I think we'll make as good a record as last year, and last year was an outstanding record." But, cocking an eye at the agenda...
...midweek, White House aides watching Capitol Hill saw storm signals, reported growing evidence that the President's legislative program might be in for heavy weather with the 87th Congress. President Kennedy decided to cut short his Florida stay and fly back to the capital for a series of conferences with key Congressmen. Chief among those the President wanted to see was Arkansas' Representative Wilbur Mills, whose Ways & Means Committee must pass on several of Kennedy's prime proposals (see following story). Then, at week's end, Kennedy flew to Columbus for a $100-a-plate Democratic...
Representatives and Senators gathering for this week's opening of the 87th Congress. Second Session, found the Capitol Hill landscape somewhat rearranged. The giant new $100 million House office building, only a web of rusty girders when Congress adjourned last September, was resplendent in a coat of white Georgia marble, though it will not be ready for occupancy for at least another year. New parapet lights illuminated the ornate designs on the Senate's arched ceiling, which have generally been shrouded in darkness since Constantino Brumidi painted them nearly a century ago. Space inside the reconstructed east front...