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...White House he soothed the sulking Democrats of Capitol Hill. They still smarted over the fact that he had interrupted their party's long grip on the presidency. He won Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate majority leader Lyndon Johnson to his side as often as not. One evening after plying L.B.J. with Scotch, Ike pointed to his own chair in the Oval Office and said, "Senator, someday you should be in that chair." Johnson roared back to his office in the Capitol wearing that tribute like a battle ribbon...
...Islamabad the caretaker government of Prime Minister Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi was startled by the aid cutoff. Some Pakistani officials do not believe Washington is serious, because it needs Islamabad's help in the gulf. Others chalk it up to irritation on Capitol Hill at the dismissal of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on corruption charges. If elections are open and fair, they believe, the "political problems in Washington" will ease...
...more popular cause since Iraq invaded Kuwait, and it is not certain that Congress will move the goalposts in the Administration's direction. Congressional staff members say they expect the White House to look for a compromise once the newly elected government has been formed. "The Pakistanis," says a Capitol Hill staffer, "probably assume we'll find a way to resume aid, but I'm not at all sure it's going to happen." Regardless of the outcome of the debate on the Hill, of course, Pakistan will remain a nuclear power...
...prime material recorded by a vocalist who has real roadhouse spirit and a way with a song that makes her right for the kind of reappraisal this set encourages and amply justifies. Jazz fans should also take note. Rhino has just released a 16-track compilation called Jumpin' at Capitol: The Best of the Nat King Cole Trio, a heavenly slice of rhythmic virtuosity covering the years...
Larry J. Restieri '90 and Chris S. Bentley '90 are trying to blaze a trail to the top in the music industry--not as executives at Capitol and Columbia, but as guitarist and bass player for The Barley Boys. The Barley Boys are an up-and-coming progressive rock quartet including lead singer Scott Whelehan and drummer Tim Barnes, both of whom graduated last spring, from Dartmouth and Hampden-Sydney...