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WORKING on this week's cover story. Writer Jesse L. Birnbaum and Reporter Neil MacNeil came under a more diverting kind of barrage: they were fired upon with polysyllables. At the end of their first three-hour interview with Senator Everett Dirksen, they had got through the story of just the first 25 years of his life. MacNeil went on with seven more hours of interviewing, and at one point, to check the story that Dirksen keeps his pants pockets full of enough odds and ends to cover a variety-store counter, he asked the Senator to empty...
Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera (Birgit Nilsson, Carlo Bergonzi, Cornell MacNeil, Giulietta Simionato, Sylvia Stahlman, Fernando Corena; Chorus and Orchestra of L'Accademia di Santa Cecilia conducted by Georg Solti; London). A rather studied approach and over-resonant sound take some of the flash out of this performance, but Soprano Nilsson and Mezzo Simionato remain joys to the ear, and Tenor Bergonzi sings with distinction...
TIME's cover story this week tells of an insider at work-a man whose essential bartering, bantering mediation between the White House and Congress was never anticipated by the constitutional forefathers. The reporter who dug up most of the material, Neil MacNeil of TIME's Washington bureau, is another insider at work...
...MacNeil, whose father was assistant managing editor of the New York Times, majored in American political history at Harvard and at the Columbia School of Graduate Faculties. He has been getting quite a political education outside-and beyond-the textbooks since moving to Washington, D.C., in 1949. First for the United Press and then for TIME, he has spent the intervening years covering the Senate, the White House and the House of Representatives. An amateur falconer, something of a chef (filet of sole bonne femme) and with "a somewhat exaggerated reputation as a wine connoisseur," MacNeil gets his professional kicks...
...wariness of bureaucrats, the imposed silences on Pentagon brass, the guardedness of friends, and the prudence of enemies. All these are known hazards, and TIME'S Washington Bureau Chief John Steele had little trouble coping with them, as he dispatched Hugh Sidey to explore White House angles, Neil MacNeil to sound out Capitol Hill reactions, and Military Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rinehart to report on the general himself...