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Humphrey also sanded down the sharp, brassy edges of his personality that so often rankled his colleagues. In the process, he became one of the Senate's most persuasive cloakroom negotiators, worked as one of Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's most trusted lieutenants, and was named majority whip in 1961 when Lyndon left the Senate and Mike Mansfield moved up to become majority leader. Nowhere was Humphrey's negotiating skill better demonstrated than during passage of this year's civil rights bill...
...anti-Callas factions have been squaring off ever since the celebrated diva opened in Norma a month ago. But the big uproar began when at one performance she reached for a high C and nothing came out, eliciting a cry of "Take her to the cloakroom!" from the gallery. Despite the furor, Callas and Norma were judged a triumph by the Paris critics. WHO CARES ABOUT A LITTLE B-FLAT, headlined Paris Presse. This week, at the conclusion of Norma's run, everyone agreed that Director Georges Auric, 65, who was hired two years ago on his promise...
...against. Williams' soft aye made the two-thirds majority required for cloture, and victory. "That's it," cried a Senator. Newsmen sprinted to telephones that had been held open. Mike Mansfield sagged in relief. Dick Russell, grim as death, scribbled fitfully on a yellow pad. Out of the cloakroom hobbled Arizona's Carl Hay den, 86, president pro tempore of the Senate and the man who stands next only to House Speaker John McCormack in the line of succession to the U.S. presidency. Although a longtime foe of cloture, Hayden this time had told Mansfield he might vote...
...that Boston is not the most logical choice. In all probability it is; but a great deal of fog, not all of it accidental, has surrounded the whole question of where the center should be built. In contrast to the relative lack of public debate on the issue, cloakroom activity has been, conspicuous; the Senate bill, for example, reached the floor thanks to a mysterious change of heart on the part of several members of the Senate Space Committee. There has also been talk that besides its abundance of scientists, Massachusetts enjoys, in this matter, the advantage of a Senate...
...Vinson became chairman of the new Armed Services Committee, the Representative with the most to say about national defense. His interest in the military brought him one of his several congressional nicknames: as a friend of the Navy he was early dubbed "the Admiral." For his skill in cloakroom maneuver, he won the admiring handle "the Georgia Swamp Fox," after the Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, who harried the British as a guerrilla leader in the Carolinas...