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...whose stud fee was only $400 and whose sole claim to fame was that he had once beaten Citation. His dam, Joppy, never won at all, and sold for $300-$150 in cash, the rest an unpaid $150 board bill. Yet, as he paraded to the post for the 87th Kentucky Derby last week, Carry Back already had earned $492,368, was up on the tote board as the 5-2 betting favorite...
...first major legislative defeat. That done. Charlie Halleck's Republicans and the hard-shell Democrats figured it would be easier to rally future opposition to such equally contentious Kennedy proposals as the education bill and medical aid to the aged. John Kennedy's honeymoon with the 87th Congress had been short and something less than sweet...
Congressman Walter observes two rules of political behavior which the late Senator McCarthy did not: he smiles, and he keeps the hearings of his committee off nationwide television hookups. Perhaps these policies account for his success. Whatever the cause, the list of his victories in the 87th Congress is frighteningly impressive...
...debated and voted on. In that simple question, a mere housekeeping detail on the surface, much was at stake: Sam Rayburn's own prestige, the balance of power between liberals and conservatives in the House, and the congressional prospects of Kennedy Administration legislative programs in the 87th Congress...
...addition to the basic problem of aid to the public schools, other education legislation that should occupy the attention of the 87th Congress includes extending the National Defense Education Act, without the affidavit, to at least four years: exparding the Soviet American cultural exchanges: sending aid to medical schools and loans to universities: creating a youth diplomatic corps and a Youth Conservation Corps...