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...Rice University Star Fred Hansen: a new world record in the pole vault, with a leap of 17 ft. 1 in. (the old record: 17 ft. ¾ in., by Miami's John Pennel), at a track meet in Houston. > Oregon's Dyrol Burleson: a one-step victory over Loyola of Chicago's Tom O'Hara in the mile run at the Compton, Calif., Relays. Burleson was clocked in 3 min. 57.4 sec., and the next seven finishers all cracked 4 min. too. Wichita's Jim Ryun, 17, came in eighth...
...countered Burleson, many Democrats are disturbed about Govern ment extravagance. Replied Kennedy: "You've already cut more than $4 billion this year." Maybe so, said Burleson, but he had computed that new programs urged by the Administration would cost $17 billion over five years. "That's a figure I never heard," said Kennedy. Within an hour, Kennedy called back. The budget bureau, he reported, did not agree with Burleson. Politely, the two chatted on about taxes and economy in government...
Timely Call. Why was President Kennedy so solicitous toward a relatively unknown Congressman? It happens that Burleson is leader of a loosely organized group of some 50 House Democrats, mainly Southern conservatives, who consider themselves an "economy bloc" -and are less reverently known as the "Boll Weevil Club." With Republicans in near unanimous support of spending limitations offered by House G.O.P. Policy Chairman John Byrnes of Wisconsin, the Boll Weevils clearly held the decisive votes. Kennedy's time on the telephone was well spent...
...week before the House was to vote, Burleson's group had agreed to support Byrnes's proposal that the second stage of the two-year tax cut could not go into effect unless the net national debt was below $303 billion next July 1. Kennedy took to nationwide radio and TV to plug the tax bill, and Republican Congressmen Byrnes and Tom Curtis of Missouri got free and equal air-waves time to answer. The whole issue then and there became more political than economic...
After the presidential phone call, Burleson's Boll Weevils met again, found they simply could not agree with Byrnes. "I don't like to call the amendment a phony," grumbled Burleson, "but it's a subterfuge-it will not do what it purports to do." Most of the Boll Weevils thereupon decided to vote against the Byrnes amendment...