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When Humphrey returned to Washington from Texas last week, he got a hearty round of applause and much effusive speechifying upon entering the Senate chamber. Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, recalling photographs taken of Lyndon and Hubert riding horseback in their business suits, twitted his colleague: "You are better on your feet than in the saddle." Tennessee's Albert Gore quoted The Book of Job: "He smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting...
ISSUES & ANSWERS (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Guest is Walter Carey, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...
...participation devices ranging from a simple prism that refracts light rays to a 350-ton Baldwin locomotive that moves up and down a track. Boston's "science smorgasbord," as Director Henry Bradford Washburn calls it, includes a bucket pendulum that dribbles sand in harmonic patterns, a working cloud chamber, and a reproduction of a ship's bridge equipped with radar, sonar, gyroscopes, steering mechanism and a view of the Charles River...
...performed a wide range of pieces that he has never before played in public, including several world premieres. At last week's Gstaad Festival, held in a picturesque village high in the Swiss Alps, capacity crowds jammed a 17th century church for a program of rarely heard Spanish chamber music, which Menuhin and a handpicked chamber orchestra performed from a scaffolding around the baptismal font...
Some lived in Spanish castles and French cháteaux so opulently furnished that even the chamber pots were made of silver. Nearly every tree on the pampas was laboriously planted by man. The ultimate status symbol was a eucalyptus-tree drive leading up to the manse, and some of them ran straight as a string for seven miles...