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...strayed inside what the French have marked off as their 80-mile "zone of responsibility" off Algeria. There the embattled French, trying to prevent infiltration of arms and men to the Algerian rebels, insist on the reserve right to control air and sea traffic. Furthermore, said the French, custom had been violated by the Russians' failure to give notification of the presence aboard the aircraft of a high personage. Whatever the merits of the case, France at week's end formally offered the Russians the French government's "sincere regrets...
...past, the custom has been to alternate between scholars and public officials in choosing the lecturer. This year C.P. Snow, British scientist and novelist, was the guest speaker...
Promptly at high noon, as he has done many hundreds of times before. House Speaker Sam Rayburn swept through the door of the Speaker's lobby and onto the floor of the House. This time something new happened, a violation of custom for which old Capitol Hill newsmen could recall no precedent: in a grand gesture of affection and respect, both Congressmen and spectators stood up and applauded the old man as he started up the steps to the Speaker's rostrum...
...Custom-Designed Pressure. Then gut-fighting Charlie Halleck swung into battle behind Judge Smith, made opposition to the Rayburn plan an official Republican stand-a position that made good tactical sense but grated on some Republicans because it aligned the G.O.P. with Southern Democrats. That confronted Rayburn with the possibility of a messy and painful defeat on the floor: he needed Republican votes to win, and Halleck's thrust forced several Republicans who would otherwise have voted for Rayburn into the Smith camp...
...press conference that he wanted the Rayburn proposal adopted. Missouri's bright, strapping Richard Boiling, Rayburn's chief lieutenant on the Rules Committee, and New Jersey's Frank Thompson masterminded a ruthless campaign to bring to bear upon every wavering Congressman special pressures that were custom-designed-a promise, a thinly veiled threat, urgings from some organization back home...