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...dew of innocence in its eye, the fires of youth in its breast, the 86th Congress this week was still in the beginning of its beginning. It was the most heavily Democratic Congress since the glad, gone days of the New Deal. New plans, new programs, most of all what columnists have long called "new approaches," hung high like pie in the sky. Any bright young Senator could make headlines by calling a press conference to tell how the U.S. could become the Man in the Moon. Even hard-bitten Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had become a space specialist...
...certain as Congress is Congress (and Article I of the Constitution still says that it is), before too many months some of the dew will have dried and some of the fires banked. The U.S., in the wonderful sum total of its governmental parts, will be operating on a reasonably down-to-earth basis. And one of the big reasons will be that improbable stabilizer called the House of Representatives...
...American Telephone & Telegraph Co., $659.8 million, including the SAGE electronic air-defense system, the Distant Early Warning (DEW) line, the "White Alice" Alaskan communications system, ICBM guidance systems...
...delight of the land of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Avoiding the tricky camera shifts and closeups that most directors try when televising ballet, Director Ralph Nelson kept the episodes sharp, the camera steady. Result: an overall sense of gaiety and space. High point: Allegra Kent, crisp and crystalline as Dew Drop...
Ernest Gruening, 71, U.S. Senator. A crusty, longtime conservationist and Alaska territorial governor for 13 years after his appointment by Franklin Roosevelt. Gruening had heavy labor support, campaigned tirelessly, spoke clearly on all questions, personally claimed credit for statehood, the DEW line and the fight against tuberculosis among Alaska's natives. It took all that to beat out young (39) Republican Mike Stepovich, who quit the territorial governorship to run. Stepovich, father of eight children and last-appointed Alaska governor proved to be only a so-so campaigner, got lost in the political infighting, lost the election...