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...Apologies. Yet it was clear that most of the Senate favored the measure. As in 1964, when he helped shep herd that year's sweeping civil rights bill into law, Dirksen abruptly appointed himself field marshal of the liberals' forces. Together with a squad of his lawyers known as "Dirksen's Bombers," Ev spent more than two days in negotiations with Senate liberals to fashion a compromise bill. The legislation that emerged would affect an estimated total of 44.6 million of the roughly 65 million housing units in the nation...
When the major commercial airlines switched over to jets in the early 1960s, they were stuck with hundreds of suddenly obsolete prop planes. The surplus planes may have seemed like a herd of white elephants to the airlines, but to budget-minded travelers with imagination, they have come to represent a skyful of magic carpets. The arithmetic was irresistible: with second-hand DC-7s available for as little as $100,000, it needed only 1,000 people contributing $100 each to buy one. Some two dozen private, nonprofit travel clubs quickly formed to put that principle to work, manning...
...Mooing Herd. He was not alone. As budgetary meetings of the full Cabinet approached their 24th hour, the Evening Standard reported that "the whole mooing herd of the government's once-sacred cows was driven to 10 Downing Street." The result, said the Standard, was "much slaughtering." If Wilson was stripping defense to placate the "mini-England" wing of his Labor Party, he was also tightening plenty of belts among the social services. Education Minister Patrick Gordon Walker described the sessions as "heartbreaking," and Minister of Arts Jennie Lee threatened to resign-and perhaps drag others with...
Mowgli in his latest incarnation is a rather engaging and innocent little boy, more like a cub scout than a cub. As al ways, a zooful of imaginative animals prowls off with the picture. A herd of blimpish elephants looks like a collective reincarnation of Dumbo, while Shere Khan, the fastidious tiger with the voice of George Sanders, is a sly, urbane villain. The snake (vocalized by Sterling Holloway) displays the most imaginative use of coils since the invention of the Slinky...
What strings it all together is Coburn's hairbreadth escapes from a herd of foreign agents trying to kidnap him for the secrets in his head and the men from something called the Federal Board of Regulation trying to kill him for the same reason. Coburn romps spryly through the part, with the comic cooperation of Severn Darden as a friendly Russian spy with an Oedipal problem, and Walter Burke as the uptight head of the FBR who exhorts his faceless men (all under 5 ft.): "Kill him . . . the nation expects it ... think of your mothers." Coburn...