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...Born. To Aye Aye Mynt U, 26, daughter of U.N. Secretary General U Thant, and Tin Mynt U, 29, Manhattan College assistant professor of math: a son, U Thant's first grandchild; in Manhattan...
...leader of the Great Society, Lyndon Johnson tuned the 89th Congress to produce just the sound he wanted: "Aye." The result was the most expansive and expensive outpouring of domestic legislation in U.S. history. This week "the fabulous 89th"-as Johnson likes to call it-convened its second session after a 78-day recess. This time the going will not be so easy. Well-rested and strengthened by pulse-feeling back home, the Congress returns to Washington far less docile and far more doubtful than when it left. Some legislators believe, in fact, that the 89th's second session...
...John Jakob Astor, then the richest man in the U.S. His European polish might have seemed a liability in American politics, but he knew just how to put it to good use. Operating on the principle that "the shortest distance between a pending bill and a Congressman's aye is through his stomach," he installed a French chef in his kitchen and invited Washington's notables. He was a master of the graduated political gift; Presidents occasionally might receive a case of Madeira, while Cabinet members would rate only terrapin, and Congressmen wound up with canvasback duck. Ward...
...sorry and confused and so does the reader. Then, with nearly 200 pages turned, comes the sermon. It is a fine sermon, delivered by a wise old Scots preacher. on the folly of hoping to win God's grace by heaping up worldly goods or worldly good works. "Aye, Annie," the preacher mimics, "I've been aye doing so muckle guid, I've noe had time to set me down and mind...
...this year, v. 99 in 1960 and 51 at the founding. To pare down the time it takes for all of the delegations to vote, the desks were fitted out with buttons connected to a pair of large electronic boards beside the podium-green lights will flash on for aye, red for nay, yellow for abstention...