Word: 98th
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...politics when he was swamped by F.D.R. in 1936. But ever since, it seems, Alf Landon has been a winner in people's hearts. Certainly there were many happy returns last week as hundreds turned out in Topeka to help the former Kansas Governor (1932 to 1936) celebrate his 98th birthday. President Reagan phoned to wish him well. Vice President George Bush came to visit. Landon's daughter Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, 53, was there also. Students from Topeka's Landon Junior High School serenaded him with "Happy Birthday" and presented the grand old party with a book...
Joseph, playing in her 98th career game, only one short of the record, ignited the Crimson to an early lead by twice feeding fellow Co-Captain Anna Collins under the hoop for easy buckets...
...least one-quarter of the 50 former members of the just departed 98th Congress say they intend to remain in Washington to work in or around the Government. The most conspicuously well rewarded will almost certainly be former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, who will earn about a million dollars this year, principally as a representative of a Houston law firm, Vinson & Elkins...
...Labor and Big Business and Big Education and Big Government are all jittery. "There are for the time being power vacuums at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue," says Oklahoma's James Jones, chairman of the House Budget Committee in the expiring 98th Congress. He is debating whether to seek an unprecedented third term in that critical but trying position...
...SenateD R U.S. House D R Governors D R Won 15 17 Won 240 171 Won 4 8 Leading 1 0 Leading 11 13 Leading 1 0 Holdovers 31 36 99th Trend 251 184 Holdovers 29 8 99th Trend 47 53 98the Congress 267 168 Trend 34 16 98th Congress 45 55 Change (Est) R +16 Current 35 15 Change (Est) D +2 Change...