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...this session will be fought not between Democrats and Republicans, but between Democrats and Democrats. A bitter intraparty fight seems certain to break out when the liberal Democrats, notably Presidential Candidate Hubert Humphrey (see Democrats), push for a civil rights bill. And the session will doubtless see many a cloakroom plot and fierce skirmish as the Senate's four presidential hopefuls-Texas' Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, Massachusetts' John F. Kennedy, Minnesota's Humphrey, Missouri's Stuart Symington-work for advantage. The scramble reaches even to the House, where Speaker Sam Rayburn is openly committed...
...tippers to show them up as "cheapskates," and Izvestia reports that, since barbers share in the gross, half the barbers' income now comes from spraying overpriced Eau de Cologne on customers, thus raising their bill for a 2-ruble haircut to 10 rubles. Soviet Culture printed a cloakroom attendant's confession that on a good cold night he took in as much as $20 in tips...
Minimum High Regard. As a committee and cloakroom negotiator, Wilbur Mills has few House peers. But when all the behind-the-scenes work has been done, it remains the basic job of the House to make laws -and that can only be done on the floor, where Majority Leader John McCormack holds forth, directing the tides of legislative battle...
...skillful display of his cloakroom style, New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, 60, last week bolstered his position, held since Ohio's Robert Taft died in 1953, as the behind-the-scenes leader of Senate Republicans. As usual he refused (for health reasons, he again explained) to consider a move from his powerful position on the Appropriations Committee to take on the minority leader title. He preferred instead to back Illinois' Everett Dirksen for the job. To crown Dirksen, Bridges had first to put down a stubborn revolt of Vermont's George Aiken and six other Senate...
Eight subcommittees were formed to handle various details involved in running the dance. The groups will plan entertainment, ticket sales, the budget, publicity, decoration, the running of the cloakroom, and the name of the dance...