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...speech, you don't have the votes." For that matter, Maggie preaches to others what he practices himself. Entering the Senate late one afternoon to drop some home-state bills into the hopper, he found Illinois' Democrat Paul Douglas delivering an epochal speech to an empty chamber. Magnuson sidled up to Douglas and whispered: "For God's sake, Paul, nobody's listening to you." The startled Douglas sat down and Maggie hoppered his bills...
Magnuson's effectiveness comes from his off-chamber work as chairman of the Senate's Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, senior Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, and member of many subcommittees. All this he calls "kitchen work." Says Maggie: "The hard part is the kitchen work. These Liberals, as they call themselves, they aren't the real Liberals. They get nothing done. They want to be out on the front porch talking while the rest of us are back doing the kitchen work. Well, I'll tell you where to look if you want to find...
...Before that, Oscar Levant played for company, but in the family circle there were the shaky soprano of Margaret Truman and her father's ricki-tick piano. Going back to the F.D.R. years, there was Kate Smith. Last week the Kennedys changed all that, with an evening of chamber music that sent shards of rapture through the world of serious music...
...were nonpartisan and intended to do their policing job and nothing more. On election day, reinforced by detachments from the regular army, the constables avoided any suggestion of intimidating voters by remaining 100 yds. from the polling places-but they kept order. Civic-minded organizations such as the Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Knights of Columbus set up volunteer, nonpartisan groups to tally results...
...simply squirted out a liquid that exploded on hitting the air. But in West Germany's Angewandte Chemie, Dr. Hermann Schildknecht of Erlanger University's Institute for Organic Chemistry has revealed the bombardier's secret: it is armed with two genuine cannons, each with a strong chamber for real internal explosions...