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...sound track from The Wild Angels and Simon and Garfunkel's Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. He has made appearances on the Johnny Carson Show and Hollywood Palace, and his name will soon join Clem Kadiddlehopper's on the Red Skelton Show. At 71, Everett McKinley Dirksen, minority leader of the U.S. Senate, has made the scene...
Captain of His Soul. Dirksen's Gallant Men, Stories of the American Adventure, was recorded, appropriately, by Capitol. It has sold so well (around 410,000 copies) that he has declaimed a second disk, scheduled to appear about Easter time, with favorite readings from the Bible and a dramatic recital of W. E. Henley's Invictus ("I am the master of my fate/I am the captain of my soul"). Disk-and TV-wise, however, the fate of the turned-on Senator rests with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), which has politely told him that...
...about the G.O.P.'s presidential stirrings is that they are generally free of racist overtures. That there is a new Republican Party-as well as an incipient new South-was manifest in a speech to the New Orleans conclave by Tennessee's freshman G.O.P. Senator Howard Baker, Dirksen's son-in-law. "I'm a lot less concerned about what my Democratic granddaddy must think of me," declared Baker, "and a lot more concerned about what my grandchildren will think...
...whether the treaty passes or fails depends not so much on Rusk, Hoover or President Johnson but, as in all other measures requiring the approval of two-thirds of the Senate, on Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, who controls a pivotal number of Republican votes. At week's end, Dirksen was inclined to be against the treaty, but was clearly open to-and vastly enjoyed-attempts to change his mind. One of the suppliants, he said, was a "young man" from the Soviet embassy. "His come-on was 'Yours is a big name in Moscow,' " Dirksen recounted gleefully...
...sports at the annual dinner of Washington's Touchdown Club were having too high a time to sit still for speeches. So they hoped that Illinois Freshman Senator Charles Percy, 47, would keep it crisp when he rose to deliver an encomium to Everett McKinley Dirksen, who was the club's honored guest. Like a Big Ten cheer leader, Percy waved flash cards bearing each letter of Dirksen's full name. " 'E' is for Effectiveness," he began, and proceeded to expatiate on how effective Ev is. Then: " 'V is for Valor." By the time...