Word: 88th
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...campaigned as no President before him for Democratic Congressional candidates. He argued that a Democratic gain would ensure passage of his programs. He failed to get that gain. Instead, the Democrats will have four fewer seats than they had before the election. The House line-up in the 88th Congress will be 259 Democrats and 176 Republicans. The same conservative Democratic committee chairmen who resisted the New Frontier before will still be there. On the record of the 87th Congress, that spells legislative problems for the New Frontier...
Nearly 500 friends, followers, and just plain curious crammed into the Left Bank studio-gallery-theater of America's pioneer Beatnik Raymond Duncan for his 88th birthday blowout. The bespectacled old expatriate, whose pad is almost a photographic shrine to his late sister, Dancer Isadora Duncan, gave them a weirdly nostalgic show. In a quavering saloon tenor he sang My Old Kentucky Home; then, unshorn silver locks and hand-woven toga flying, he launched into a frantic soft-sandal jig. The Dior-dressed segment of the crowd dug it deep. But the modern beats, obviously distressed that no food...
...Senate seats up for contest this fall, 21 are held by Democrats and 18 by Republicans. And, barring an unexpected tide, the 64-to-36 Democratic majority of the 87th Congress is likely to stay much the same in the 88th. Such is the unpredictability of voters that elections often bring startling surprises, with some incumbents who had seemed safe losing after all, and some who had seemed to be in danger actually winning by huge margins. But as of last week, without benefit of hindsight, the line-up looked like this...
Last week Truman was on hand to lead a crowd of 30,000 in singing Happy Birthday as Hoover, marking his 88th year, returned to his grass-roots birthplace at West Branch, Iowa (pop. 1,053), to dedicate his own library, the fourth presidential library created by Congress (others: Roosevelt's at Hyde Park, N.Y., Eisenhower's at Abilene, Kans.). But on this occasion, an ex-President did more than ribbon-snip. Speaking "as the shadows gather around me," Hoover took the United Nations to task. The world organization was racked by the "disintegrating forces" of the Communist...
...Oldest and best-known trainer of race horses in the U.S.-and still going strong-Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons celebrated his 88th birthday with a champagne-and-cake party at New Jersey's Monmouth Park. Blue eyes twinkling, "Mr. Fitz" confided that he has not bet on a horse since Aug. 13, 1919, when he risked $150 on the nose of Man O' War-the day "Big Red" was beaten by Upset, the only loss of his career. Asked if he plans to retire soon, Mr. Fitz snorted: "A man doesn't quit in his prime...