Word: dirksenism
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...granted," he says. "I can be a team man, with the reservation that I can leave the team when I want to." He favors open housing, job-training programs, seating Red China in the U.N.?all of which puts him out of step with Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen. More often than not, he will be voting with the Republican liberals, notably California's Tom Kuchel, New York's Jacob Javits, New Jersey's Clifford Case and his fellow freshmen Hatfield and Percy...
...engaging campaign appearances for Ed, helped harvest the Italian vote for him. Remigia and their daughters, Remi, 17, and Edwina, 14, will stay in Newton for the time being while the Senator commutes there weekends. Although she loves meeting people, Remigia has a knack for mangling their last names (Dirksen becomes "Dirdis" or "Kirkenson"). Recently she confided her problem to a dinner partner, Vice President Humphrey, who astutely advised her: "Just call them 'Honey' or 'Sweetie.' " Vote White. Until he was 30 years old, Ed Brooke never even voted. Then in 1950, several friends suggested that...
...does not join, the union insists, he can forget about the third and fourth records he has tentatively planned and reserve his long-play rhetoric for Meet the Press. For Dirksen, who has indefatigably reiterated his conviction that no one should be forced to join a union, and twice last year led successful filibusters to preserve state right-to-work laws, AFTRA's demands pose a delicate dilemma indeed...
Living Curl. Yet few would rule out a rapprochement. In the Senate, after all, Dirksen is the acknowledged master of compromise. And it would not be the first time that the Senator has withdrawn from show biz. He made his first farewell bow to the boards some 40 years ago in Pekin, Ill., after he had starred in and married the leading lady of a local theatrical. In Pekin, he also co-authored and directed a two-act comedy called Chinese Love, which tells of Sing Loo's pursuit of the blossom of his eye, Pan Toy. Sample dialogue...
Where will the political recording business end? With Dirksen and Powell racing for their gold platters (1,000,000 albums sold), other political figures may well find the urge irresistible. J. Edgar Hoover, suggests Columnist Art Buchwald, might cut Voices of Famous People I Have Bugged-if he could get the tapes from Bobby Kennedy. Lurleen Wallace could do Lurleen Plays Music to Segregate By, with Husband George conducting the Alabama State Police Symphony Orchestra. And Ronald Reagan might try Ronnie Reagan Swings at Berkeley. At any rate, as Dirksen himself has noted, the path from show biz to politics...