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...into new voter patterns, will watch his step until Election Day. Said one California Democrat last week: "If I knew where I stood, I could vote like a statesman. Instead I've got to tiptoe down the center aisle, this way and that. I'm a cracker-barrel Congressman, and I could have been a statesman...
Next morning, shortly after 7 a.m., a pajama-clad Hemingway went downstairs and from the gun rack took his favorite gun, which, like almost everything he owned, was not merely a thing but a ceremonial object. A twelve-gauge, double-barreled shotgun inlaid with silver, it had been specially made for Hemingway. He put the gun barrel in his mouth and pulled both triggers. The blast blew his whole head away except for his mouth, his chin, and part of his cheeks...
...Kennedy Administration, the debacle was a defeat on a major piece of legislation. But Orville Freeman still thought his bill was perfectly sound. Said he in explanation of his defeat: "It was bare bones, with no meat on it. But procedures are never as exciting as the pork barrel...
...probing the American Stock Exchange after a series of scandals (TIME, May 5 et seq.), even more disturbing that SEC investigators were working overtime on more cases of market fraud and manipulation than ever before. But last week SEC Chairman William L. Gary suggested that the whole barrel of apples had better be tumbled out and examined. Testifying before a House subcommittee, Gary urged a full-dress investigation of general trading and market practices, strongly endorsed a proposal by Illinois' Democratic Congressman Peter Mack, the subcommittee chairman, that would give the SEC $750,000 to conduct an 18-month...
...more important to reach conclusions regarding presently known problems than it is to delay those conclusions in the search for new problems." Nonetheless. Wall Street waited in uncomfortable fascination to see what new worms-or hitherto undescribed old ones-the SEC will find in its barrel of apples...