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...thirty-six years of service as Congressional representative from Massachusetts' ninth district, John McCormack has consistently led the fight in the House for passage of social legislation and other liberal measures. As Sam Rayburn's able assistant, McCormack helped steer through the 1940 Selective Service Act, the Lend-Lease Act and the Marshall Plan. As Speaker of the House he has been instrumental in passing bills in support of civil rights, tax reduction, conservation, and the war on poverty...
...daughter of a Washington physician and a fashion designer, trained in Washington and abroad before joining the New York City Ballet in 1960. She is cast in the classical mold, a perfectly proportioned ballerina of ravishing grace and serene lyricism. Her expressive arms, arching back, and regal stage presence lend grandeur to a role, as exemplified by her Adagio in Symphony...
Montana: G.O.P. Challenger Alex Blewett, 51, former speaker of the state house, keeps trying to get Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, 61, into a debate, but mild Mike ignores him. Mansfield is one man who may lend Lyndon Johnson his coattails, instead of vice versa...
...ignored her in order to sit next to Dr. Murphy's new wife. In fact, all during the trial Happy seemed a rather forlorn figure. Governor Rockefeller apparently considered it inappropriate to accompany her, and only occasionally did Happy have a relative or close friend with her to lend moral support...
...portrait of the artist as the victim of his fickle followers and corrupt critics, if it is funny at all, is heavy, testy humor. Teeth clenched, he wields the apparatus of slapstick boldly, but draws neither laughs nor blood because his northern variations on 8½ do not lend themselves to pie-in-the-face comedy. Even the most accomplished cinema stylist can scarcely hope, perhaps, to be the Fellini of the frost belt and a Scandinavian Sennett at the same time...