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Like the ruffed grouse in its mating ceremony, the U.S. Senate began its biennial ritual-Democrats filibustering against Democratic efforts to end Democratic filibustering...
Republican candidates for the House of Representatives, where all seats are at stake in every biennial election, polled 24,116,473 votes (47.11%), against 19,843,471 votes (43.29%) in 1958. The vote for Democratic House candidates also in creased last November, from 25,801,888 to 26,948,221, but the party's percentage fell from...
...contributors including the editor, very well equipped to cope with like Salinger, who is as committed to ambiguity as Zen. He is, above and beyond all, a technician. His biennial production of stories suggests the care he devotes to his work; the remarkable style he has achieved suggests how completely he has become obsessed with selecting gesture, word, and scene...
...important than a staunch philosophy, that a candidate's stand on sewer bonds outweighs his views on foreign policy. But for all President Kennedy's rosy description of the nation's state, the U.S. does face grave problems abroad and at home. It is in the biennial elections that the American voter has his best chance to help solve these problems...
...with work in progress; Gobelin in Paris, once the royal tapestry house for the kings of France but more recently a manufacturer of furniture, has put weavers back to work on modern tapestries designed by some of France's foremost artists. And in Lausanne, Switzerland, the first tapestry biennial exposition, sponsored by the International Center of Ancient and Modern Tapestry, has since June been attracting visitors from all over the world (see color...