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...twelve years, at the beginning of each new session of Congress, Pennsylvania's Republican Representative Carroll Kearns has methodically offered a resolution demanding that a congressional delegation be dispatched to recount the gold buried at Fort Knox. The resolution was what Congressmen call "constituent bait," designed solely to impress Daughters of the American Revolution, who are powerful in Kearns's home district. Year after year the Kearns resolution and dozens of similar motions have been ignored by the House Rules Committee and allowed to die decently-as the authors expected. But last week, to the surprise of Carroll...
...liberal Democrats, who would assure the free flow of liberal legislation through the committee and thereby end Virginia Conservative Smith's control over the House calendar (TIME, Feb. 10). Then, Smith and his conservative committee colleagues were accused of obstructionism. Last week, as he called up the constituent bait resolutions and forced the committee liberals to vote them down, Judge Smith was setting the stage for a future time when he can accuse the liberals themselves of being obstructionist...
...Gaulle saved until the last his only real bit of bait for the rebels. "Someone asked me a question about Ben Bella?" he inquired, his long nose sweeping the room. No one had, but De Gaulle went on to promise that the F.L.N. leader, kidnaped off a plane out of Rabat back in 1956 and now jailed in France, would get "considerably more liberal treatment" (presumably removal from a cell to comfortable house arrest) once the Lake Geneva talks opened, and his freedom, once a cease-fire is signed. Thereupon, De Gaulle took off on a tour of Southwest France...
...chunkier look-alike son of Perry Como, 47, and the crooner's pretty wife Roselle, spent spring vacation with his parents on Florida's Jupiter Island. Father and son characteristically kept aloof from the social-registered regulars of nearby Palm Beach, spent their time digging sand-flea bait and fishing for pompano...
...week's cover story on Ford Dealer Jim Moran (see BUSINESS). Researcher Piri Halasz roamed through showrooms in New York City and New Jersey, brought along an uncle who was once a car salesman himself. Correspondent Bill Shelton borrowed Correspondent Marvin Zim's Volkswagen as trade-in bait, made the rounds of Chicago car dealers, found Jim Moran's salesroom harder to escape from without a new car than anywhere else...