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Inevitably, the ceremony ran behind schedule. Jack Kennedy, waiting in a small chamber near the rotunda, whistled softly to himself. At last he got the word that everything was ready, walked out onto the windswept platform, sat down next to Ike, and the two passed a few minutes in an animated discussion of Cornelius Ryan's book on DDay, The Longest Day, which Kennedy had been reading. It was 12:13 o'clock-and even though he had not yet taken his oath of office, Kennedy, under the U.S. Constitution, had been President of the U.S. since...
With the doors of the House chamber shut to keep out the public, the press and the Republicans, the Democratic members of the House met last week in a party caucus that will be long remembered on Capitol Hill. After years of futile attempts, House Democratic liberals finally won a decisive victory over Virginia's crusty old Rules Committee Chairman Howard W. Smith, leader of the road-blocking conservative coalition that has dominated the mighty Rules Committee since 1937 (TIME, Jan. 13). The caucus lasted only 15 minutes, but it cleared away the most formidable congressional obstacle...
...controversial bill, Socialist members made it clear they were prepared to compromise if a face-saving device could be found. "We must discuss things together," admitted Socialist ex-Premier Achille van Acker. In return, Eyskens agreed to consider a Socialist amendment. Then, exhausted, the Premier fainted in the Chamber, was led away to a sickbed before the vote on the measure brought victory to the government...
...woods to conduct an imaginary orchestra of trees with a branch for a baton. While in the Belgian army, he entered the contest for nonprofessional conductors at Besangon, France, and finished next to last. After that he settled down to study conducting in earnest, soon got his own chamber orchestra and began winning critical cheers. Vandernoot is as famed for his girl friends as he is for his fortissimos. Says he: "I have given up my wife, my two" mistresses and my fiancee to devote myself to love...
...office. Moments later, as the duly elected Vice President of the U.S., he listened as the clerk read his resignation from the Senate. Johnson made a hand-washing gesture, watched patronizingly while an appointed Senator, Millionaire William Blakley, was sworn in his stead, shortly walked out of the chamber to revert (but not for long) to the title of mister...