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...Consequently, I went back to my regular work about as stale as one of those pieces of 3,000-year-old bread that they sometimes find in Egyptian tombs. Then last spring I made an extremely taxing round-the-world reporting trip. After getting back from Saigon in mid-May, I was never really well, and this general misery crystallized into an interminable bout of summer flu and bronchitis that made this year's holiday from the column the opposite of restorative...
...sophomore year at Rice University. After that he joined the parade to the catapult-like fiber glass pole and ran into trouble. "It took me forever to get used to it," he says. "I didn't really learn to bend the pole until this year." In mid-May at Modesto, Calif., he hit 16 ft. 4½ in.-and he has not been that low since...
...mid-May, recalls Dirksen, his amendment package was "in pretty tangible shape." At Dirksen's suggestion, Humphrey arranged for a bipartisan meeting between Senate and Administration leaders. The place: Dirksen's leadership office with the tinkling chandelier that once belonged to Thomas Jefferson. The participants: Dirksen, Mansfield, Humphrey, California's Republican Senator Tom Kuchel, Attorney General Kennedy, Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, and a sprinkling of liberals, moderates and conservatives from both parties...
...construction contracts in April ran 9% ahead of last year; orders for machine tools in April were 35% higher than in March. Consumer demand is rising, and money was never so plentiful-$418.7 billion in disposable personal income this year v. $257 billion a decade ago. Auto sales in mid-May set an alltime record, running 8% over last year's rate. Steelmakers are revising their estimates upward, now expect this year's production to equal 1955's record 117 million tons. At the American Iron and Steel Institute convention in New York last week, Inland Steel...
...still absent were nine of Humphrey's Democratic supporters and six pro-civil rights Republicans. With that, Humphrey and Majority Leader Mike Mansfield summoned offending Democrats to a special meeting, urged them to mend their ways and handed out a list of scheduled quorum calls through mid-May. Seven Senators didn't show up for that session either...