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...even the memory of the sharp, benign figure who presided at party conventions will be missed so much. His successor will most likely be John McCormack, who will soon experience the overwhelming loneliness of the speaker, who must, often sympathizing neither with the President nor with his chamber, act to reconcile them both. Rayburn sat in that isolated chair for 18 years, trying at once to legislate and to preserve his integrity and humanity; and he was successful...
Thumbing through successive editions of a bestselling college text written by President Kennedy's favorite economist, the sharp-eyed nabobs of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce delightedly noted signs of creeping deflation. Back in 1948, in the first edition of his Economics, An Introductory Analysis, M.I.T. Professor Paul Samuelson, 46, argued that price rises of up to 5% a year were only mildly inflationary, "need not cause too great concern." In subsequent revisions of the book, Samuelson whittled away at the permissible annual price rise until this year, in the fifth edition, he cut it to a mere...
Alfred E. Vellucci, whose customary comic performances have ceased to be funny this year. During the campaign, Vellucci has attempted to make hasty, blatant political hay of almost all legislation and several times has displayed discourtesy in the Council chamber...
Composer Ward, who earns his living as the editor of a music publishing house, has written four symphonies, a number of songs and chamber pieces, and one other opera-He Who Gets Slapped, based on the play by Leonid Andreyev. He wrote The Crucible in one year, in the study of his 14-room house in Nyack, N.Y., and just finished in time. As curtain time approached, he was feeding the score to the singers five pages at a clip. The time is ripe for good opera, Ward believes, but he deplores the tendency-exemplified in Alban Berg...
...press caused a great deal of trouble in incorrectly identifying the bill as an "aid to parochial schools bill," McCaskill claimed, and attacked the Chamber of Commerce for opposing the bill is an attempt to reserve capital for over investment purposes...