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Steps & Shuffles. Perennially denounced as a socialist since the mid'30s, Cohen nonetheless is respected by most Congressmen, who are impressed by his knowledge of the American welfare system and appreciate his non-bureaucratic understanding of their own problems as legislators. Even Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee-who is about as antisocialist as a Congressman and an Arkansan can get-concedes that Cohen has always been willing "to compromise when compromises have to be made." That is perhaps the highest compliment Mills could pay anyone...
...been carried off the proving ground by wind. Yet wind velocity during the test was between 5 m.p.h. and 20 m.p.h., with gusts up to 35 m.p.h. blowing in practically a straight line from the proving grounds to Skull Valley, where the sheep died. Facing a delegation of Utah Congressmen in Washington last week, General Stone admitted that "we fully recognize with this occurring right on our doorstep, and probably involving a chemical similar to materials we have been testing, that we are highly suspect." Investigation of the sheep deaths, he said, would continue...
With less than three months remaining until the first statewide delegate primary in New York's history, Democratic Congressmen, State Senators, assemblymen, county chairmen, and party hacks are asking themselves the agonizing question: do I stick with Lyndon Johnson or do I throw my support to Robert Kennedy? A handful a day is switching, and it appears that Kennedy will control slightly more than two-thirds of the state's 190 delegates to the Chicago convention. (McCarthy will be lucky if he gets any delegates...
...were zero to two Democrats in the '20's, a high of 14 in 1935, three to six in the '40's, and seven to 15 in the '50's. Twelve Democrats currently hold Senate seats. In addition, both of Wisconsin's U.S. Senators and three of its ten Congressmen are Democrats...
...announced for a third Senate term. Though Javits has intensified his criticism of the President's war policies and demanded an end to the bombing of North Viet Nam, the Administration has yet to find a candidate to run against him. Thus far, only two comparative lightweights, Democratic Congressmen Joseph Resnick and Otis Pike, have announced for the race...