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Both measures, thorniest to come before the hapless 88th Congress, had seemed hopelessly lost in the thickets of recalcitrant committees. But no more-the old lollygagging 88th was happily on the move at last...
Songs & Toasts. Charles de Gaulle has called him "the clown in a cassock." But mustard-making Dijon loves him. The city has happily elected him mayor and Deputy to Parliament for 18 years. Last week, on his 88th birthday, his desk was piled high with congratulatory messages. The band of the local infantry regiment turned up at town hall to serenade him with Burgundian drinking songs, and everyone joined in a toast-a kir, of course...
...88th Congress, after an eight-day adjournment, returned for its second session - only to be confronted by most of the major legislative items over which it had dawdled during its first session...
...since Little Eva had there been quite such a deathbed scene-and at week's end the first session of the 88th Congress was still in the protracted process of breathing its last...
...Dirksen who pronounced the kindest epitaph for the year's session. "When all is said and done," he said, "the first session of the 88th Congress was not a 'do-nothing Congress' as some would have it or a 'dolittle Congress' or a 'standstill Congress.' The more appropriate term would be a 'stop, look, and listen, Congress...