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...seen and heard this performance will ever forget it. For this is Illinois Republican Everett McKinley Dirksen, 66, minority leader of the U.S. Senate. He is his party's spokesman in the Senate and the man responsible for unifying the often disparate views of G.O.P. members, and for translating those aims into action. As the keystone of the loyal opposition, he must move with a sure political sophistication and a thorough grasp of political events. By dint of these qualities, and abetted by his marvelously furry voice. Dirksen has become one of the truly remarkable characters of the Senate...
Dirksen's father, like most folks in those parts, was a Republican through and through. He proved it by naming his first-born son Benjamin Harrison; when his wife gave him twins, he seconded the motion by naming them Everett McKinley and Thomas Reed (after the then Speaker of the House). Father Dirksen died when Everett was nine. He had made a good living painting fancywork on carriages and buggies. But he left little. The family lived in the section called "Beantown," where thrifty immigrants grew beans instead of flowers. Dirksen's mother, a hardy woman...
Playing in the thin-aired altitude (7,434 ft. above sea level) of Mexico City's Chapultepec Sports Center, the U.S.'s Chuck McKinley started out as if he meant to deflate the Mexicans entirely. Having one of his good days, the erratic McKinley routed the No. 1 man on Mexico's team, Rafael Osuna, in straight sets, 6-2, 7-5, 6-3. No matter that the U.S. team's No. 2 player, Jon Douglas, lost a tough, five-set match to Mexico's veteran Antonio Palafox. The U.S. was favored in the doubles...
...that way. As McKinley's doubles partner, Davis Cup Captain Robert J. Kelleher chose Dennis ("The Menace") Ralston, 20, a temperamental Californian whose best showing was as a member of the winning Wimbledon doubles team in 1960, but whose uninspired play since then ranks him only eleventh on the list of U.S. players. In the first set, the U.S. had a 4-2 lead when Ralston's service fell apart. For the first time in Davis Cup memory, a game was lost at love on four successive double faults. Quick to seize the advantage, Osuna and Palafox fought...
Before a screaming crowd of 3,200 on the final day, Osuna, who developed his tennis game at the University of Southern California, beat Jon Douglas. Though McKinley won as expected, Mexico took the competition, three matches to two. Next for the surprising Mexicans is the American zone final against Yugoslavia in Mexico City this weekend. After that, the American zone winner will fight it out with Sweden, the European champion, and India, winner in the Far East, for the chance to challenge Australia in December. And all the while, the U.S. will once again be on the sidelines...