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...institution where verbosity is a virtue, Javits is probably the greatest virtuoso of them all???at least since Hubert Humphrey departed. "He knows the facts on everything," says Marion?and he can summarize them in a few thousand choice words at a moment's notice. Back in 1961, Javits was orating on an immigration bill that he considered unjust when Rhode Island Democrat John Pastore tried to gain the floor. "Let me finish," pleaded Javits. Pastore looked up at the chamber's high ceiling, rolled his eyes dramatically and moaned: "The Senator never finishes...
...Some say that Goldwater should be given the nomination if only to prove to the party?once and for all???that super-conservatives can't win. But what a risk! In view of Johnson's wild self-confidence in his personal survival rate in fast cars and in crowds of potential assassins, I'll vote for a real presidential alternative in our California primary: Rockefeller...
Carrots & Cops. Eight months ago Charles de Gaulle, soldier, scholar and writer, was a recluse, regarded by most of the world?when it thought of him at all???as a man whose role in history had ended a dozen years earlier. Today he is Premier and President-elect of France's Fifth Republic and exercises more direct power over his country's affairs than any other democratically chosen leader in the Western world. "His personal prestige," says a British expert on France, "is higher than that of any Frenchman since Napoleon...
...challenge plucks at the will of Owner Vanderbilt. It piques the imagination of those who see in the Dancer the qualities of true thoroughbred greatness. They can visualize the power-burst finish ?uphill and all???and the proud, nostril-flaring stand in a foreign winner's circle. Whether the vision proves right or not, memory is likely to treasure the Big Grey. "There," they will say someday, "there was a real champion...
...vast number of books he wrote?153 in all???that Hilaire Belloc would be remembered, but for the happy gift of rhyme in the best of them...