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...reasons ranging from age to political weariness to lust for higher office, a record number of incumbent Congressmen???37 Democrats and 17 Republicans?did not even run for reelection. Perhaps the best-known member to retire was House Speaker Carl Albert, 68, the only nationally known native of Bug Tussle, Okla. The seat he held for 15 terms (but not, of course, his role as Speaker) will be more or less filled by State Senator Wes Watkins, 37, of Ada, Okla., who had a harder job defeating five other Democrats in the primary than he did in whomping Republican Challenger...
Indeed, the White House has a new strategy. Nixon wants to wait and see whether outsiders?businessmen, labor leaders, Congressmen???can build up enough support for an incomes policy to create the political consensus that would enable it to work. Provided that happens, he may be willing to accept it. The consensus could be built in next month's Senate hearings. While they are going on, Nixon will have a grace period of several months, during which the original anti-inflation plan may still work out as George Shultz hopes. If it appears during the hearings that Congress will approve...
...make union organizing difficult. Growth has been slowed some what by the recession, but a firm federal floor under the Southern economy has so far protected the region from wide fluctuations. Military payrolls and farm subsidies?economic buffers care fully cultivated by the South's high-seniority senators and congressmen???have cushioned the recession's impact...
...became the state's first post-Reconstruction G.O.P. Senator largely as a result of feudin' and fussin' among Lone Star Democrats, benefited from renewed dissension and managed to hang onto Lyndon Johnson's old seat against Democratic Attorney General Waggoner Carr, 48. The G.O.P. also elected two Congressmen???one of them Houston Oilman George Bush, 42, son of former Connecticut Senator Prescott Bush?bringing the party's congressional strength back to what it was before the 23-member Texas delegation went solidly Democratic...
...House of Representatives has now come to number 435. Nobody wants any more Congressmen???even 435 are too many to be of any use except when they are split up into a variety of committees. Each member now represents an average of about 250,000 U. S. inhabitants. But the injustice lies in the fact that whereas some Congressmen represent less than that number of males and females, some represent a great many more. Notably, Congressman Crail of the Los Angeles-Hollywood district is the sole voice of 1,250,000 people, so that a vote in Los Angeles...