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Rhinoceros Qualities. Bella knows that her abrasive manner grates on her colleagues. As one fastidious member says: "When Bella comes roaring into the cloakroom, mutters a few four-letter words and elbows you out of the way, you want to treat her as you would treat any rude man. But sometimes when she has that hat off, and she is talking about the things she cares about, her face is really pretty...
...five weeks to come around-constitutes the miracle. There are times when one wishes that Harris had pressed senators more closely on their individual revelations. What were the reasons behind Margaret Chase Smith's "nay," for instance. Decision is a mosaic of the telephone calls, the speeches, the cloakroom chats, the evidence and the gaffs that were mobilized against Carswell...
...ends eight years in the House and moves over to the Senate, Brock will be rattling what he may regard as a family skeleton in the Senate cloakroom. Another William Brock, his grandfather, was a Senator from 1929 to 1932. Grandfather Brock was, of all things, a Democrat...
Just 20 minutes before the roll call was to begin, Schweiker got his White House plea?and promptly told Ed Brooke. "I raced into the cloakroom to find Mrs. Smith," Brooke recalled. "She wasn't there. I raced down to the Senate dining room and found her." Mrs. Smith, livid at the unauthorized?but not inaccurate?use of her name, called Harlow, who admitted that the calls had been made. Brooke rushed onto the Senate floor and spread the word that Maggie Smith was not yet in the Administration's camp...
Opposed President. Last week he could no longer contain himself. On a CBS radio show, Capitol Cloakroom, the Senator accused the Nixon Administration of making a "cold, calculated political decision" to give blacks short shrift. It is "a suburban as well as a Southern strategy," said Brooke, and he predicted that Nixon and his advisers would "continue along the road they took during the campaign." Recalling a favorite Nixon campaign slogan, he added: "President Nixon said he wanted to bring us together, but everything he has done so far appears to be designed to push us further apart...