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...people elect the House. But the House elects the all-important Rules Committee. And last week, as old opponents began to dust off their parliamentary weapons, it seemed certain that the 88th Congress would begin the same way the 87th did-with a battle royal over the makeup of the Rules Committee...
...London, Sir Winston Churchill breakfasted on a soft-boiled egg and, on his 88th birthday, followed it with a glass of champagne...
...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...
After all the hueing and crying, there will only be 67 new faces among the 435 of the 88th Congress. And only one truly big-name Congressman failed to win reelection...
...Bradford Morse, a Republican who often votes like a Democrat. Kitchin ran up against popular Charles R. Jonas, who cultivates his constituents the year round with cookbooks, letters and palm squeezing. Lone Republican in North Carolina's delegation in the 87th Congress, Jonas will have company in the 88th: Republican James Broyhill ousted incumbent Democratic Congressman Hugh Alexander...