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...have dawdled along month after month with no bills on the calendar," said Pennsylvania's Joe Clark to a well-filled Senate Chamber. "Now we find ourselves in a hectic position of disarray, trying desperately to pass enough legislation so that we will not be held up to the scorn of the country...
...Democrat Clark's tongue-lashing was meant for Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, but it made a certain amount of sense to his red-eyed, rumpled colleagues, worn down by 14-hour working days as they rushed toward adjournment before the July11 Democratic Convention. The House side was equally hectic. After five leisurely months, the 86th Congress last week launched a frantic drive to pass "must" legislation. Items: ¶The House passed (258-124) a $3.58 billion foreign-aid bill, $590.5 million below Administration requests, but a surprising $200 million above the $3.38 billion package backed by House Speaker...
...rocketed and fizzled like Roman candles "Ridge" Warren has beefed up Trumpet's circulation, but the magazine's advertising is a sickly trickle, its creditors are edgy and the bank is poised to snip its credit life line. Two-thirds of View centers on Ridge's hectic bids to bring the marines of high finance to the rescue...
...Best Man. In a hectic political convention, Playwright Gore Vidal shuffles his cardboard characters with dexterity, but since no issue is ever mentioned, they could just as well be competing for the presidency of a cement company...
Then, while the whole world's press has gone mad in sensationalism after the unhappy events in Sharpeville, you come out with a sober, factual, well-written article of what really went on in this hectic week...