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Behind Rayburn's warning also lay a political ploy, aimed at shifting the responsibility for diluting the reciprocal trade bill from the Democratic Congress to the Republican Administration. Rayburn's friend and proteégeé, Democrat Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, suffered a humiliating defeat when the House recently voted down a dole-type unemployment-compensation bill approved by his Ways & Means Committee (TIME, May 12). Hopeful of succeeding Rayburn as Speaker one day, Mills was desperately anxious to avoid even the possibility of a similar defeat. But as a longtime supporter of reciprocal trade, he was also...
...Hampshire last week, Acheson drew on his knowledge of diplomatic history and his own experiences as Secretary of State, argued effectively against the hand-wringers of his own party (including his longtime friend and State Department key man, George Kennan) who insist on the international summit conference even if held on propaganda-serving Soviet terms...
...Democrats control the Congress next year. Anderson will probably be chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and thus the man on Capitol Hill with whom Strauss must work most closely. Last week, summing up the possible results. New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock, an old friend to both Anderson and Strauss, described Strauss as Clint Anderson's Doctor Fell, concluded: "If Strauss retires voluntarily at the end of his current term, June 30, one of the principal reasons might well be his patriotic recognition that, in the Senate battle against his confirmation foreshadowed by Anderson...
Keen on the sporting life since his days as an amateur pug in Prague, barrel-chested Metropolitan Tenor Kurt Bourn asked a former neighbor, Wrestler Antonino Rocca, to demonstrate his headlock technique. As any friend would, Rocca grabbed Baum's head and squeezed. Result: one blocked nasal passage, aggravating an old injury, one canceled singing tour, one operation for Tenor Baum. Said he ruefully in the hospital: "One moment I had perfect pitch, the next a nose that felt like a ripe persimmon...
...Cliburn is a gangling (6 ft. 4 in., 165 Ibs.), snub-nosed, mop-haired boy out of Kilgore, as Texan as pecan pie. Instead of medals, he carried a well-thumbed Bible; instead of doeskin gloves, a single dress shirt, a plastic wing collar given to him by a friend, a ratty grey Shetland sweater that often showed under his dress jacket when he took his bows...