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TEXAS' SAM RAYBURN, 77, the 44th Speaker of the House, has held his office 14 years, far longer than any other man (Henry Clay, elected Speaker his first day, served ten years). Eighth of eleven children of a Confederate cavalryman, Rayburn comes from tough, Bible-reading ("Every bit of wisdom is written somewhere in that book") people, who scratched a living from 40 sun-baked acres of cotton at Bonham, Texas. Folks such as his family, he thinks, are the "real people," and his feeling for them forms the basis of his political liberalism. Since 1913 Rayburn has represented Texas...
...organization Democrat, he is the recognized leader of House Southern conservatives, uses his committee to fight off civil rights legislation. ("I use every weapon I've got," he says. "That's why I'm here.") Since 1931 Judge Smith (he was a state circuit judge) has represented Virginia's Eighth Congressional District, stretching from the Blue Ridge to the Northern Neck and including Charlottesville and Fredericksburg. Judge Smith owns three farms, lives on his family lands near Broad Run, where he has nearly 300 head of dairy cattle, and an old red sow whose ears he likes to scratch...
...Little Rock, where high schools have been closed since last September, U.S. Judge John E. Miller forbade the newly elected school board to transfer school property to private-school groups or impede the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals integration mandate. The court did not order schools reopened, but told board members "to take affirmative steps on their own initiative" to integrate once schools are open, and to report such steps to him within 30 days...
After the Crimson had frittered away a B.C. tripping penalty with two mistakes at the points, Bud Higginbottom tallied his eighth goal of the season at 15:42, stabbing Dave Vietze's center into the right hand corner of the cage from close range...
...Lindsay's two goals--his eighth and ninth of the year--helped the Hawks extend their unbeaten string...