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...Spanish side, the Sultan's representative is pliant, unventuresome, 43-year-old Caliph Sidi Muley Hassan ben el Mehed. cousin of the exiled sultan and nephew of the new. The Spanish have persuaded the caliph to condemn the French change of rulers, but he is also believed to have secretly telephoned his congratulations to the new. French-backed Sultan...
Along about 1940, North Carolina's Robert Lee ("Muley") Doughton, Congress' oldest member, inaugurated a biennial ritual that Washington hands learned to take as a sign of spring. First comes a spate of rumors that Muley will not run again. Then comes a statement to the press: in response to his friends' demands, he will run after all. The ceremony came off right on schedule a fortnight ago; it was almost time to look for the first forsythia. Then, last week, Muley sadly broke the tradition. He announced that his doctors had ordered him not to risk...
...teetotaling Muley Doughton-"what little brains I got, I have to keep sober so I can do my work"-Washington was losing a sturdy landmark. At 88, he is getting deaf (though some say he can hear just fine when he wants to). In the last year or so, he has taken to sleeping in, gets to his office around 8 a.m., three hours later than in the old days. But his 6 ft. 2 in. frame is still as straight as an Indian's and almost as tough as it was in his boyhood on the farm, when...
Last week, when Muley finished reading his retirement announcement for the television cameras, he turned to the technicians and asked: "Curtains?" Came the reply: "Yes, Mr. Chairman, that's all." Doughton nodded slightly, blinked, brought his hands slowly together like the final curtain of a long, long play, and repeated, half to himself: "Curtains...
...chance of passage? Said Ways & Means Chairman Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton last week: "Sentiment is ... overwhelmingly against it." In 1932, recalled ancient (87) Representative Doughton, Ways & Means had reported out a sales tax bill which was defeated.* In depression 1932, it should have been; then all efforts were to stimulate spending, not to cut it. But now times are different. Some Congressmen who now oppose a sales tax may quickly change their position if the budget hits $80 billion. Then, a sales tax will probably be the only way to balance the budget...