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...concern for the Cambridge situation. Both have long since departed. The Convention has descended into the introduction--hamstrung by a parliamentary procedure no one understands--of an endless series of remarkably similar caucus resolutions written in obscure legal language. Kids running through the hall have voted both Yea and Nay on all motions and followed their dogs out the huge front doors...
...said, "If you do it, I will." The other said, "If you do it, I will," and before anyone could say nay, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton had agreed to play the unlikely roles of two homosexuals in the film version of Charles Dyer's play, Staircase. "I'm really thrilled about it and I think Richard is too," said Harrison, who will appear as Charles the transvestite. Quite a shift for the fellow the gals call Sexy Rexy. "But it's one of those things one has to take a chance on," said Harrison...
...regulations strike deep at arcane devices dear to the Senate parliamentarians. Many members often feign forgetfulness about whether they voted aye or nay and interrupt roll calls to ask whether their vote has been recorded and how they voted. This is a time-spinning maneuver, enabling habitual latecomers-notably including New York's Bobby Kennedy and Illinois' Charles Percy-to vote. Henceforth, this maneuver is out. Instead, Senate clerks will make a "slow call" of the roll, which, its proponents insist, will give laggards at least 15 minutes to reach the chamber...
...Oakland. And it is the thing that makes Bobby Hull the superstar of his blazing sport. A legion of partisans call him "the Golden Jet" and "Mr. Hockey," regard him as the greatest player of this or any other day-and rare is the expert who says them nay...
...thrill of a lifetime," Dwight Eisenhower called it, and no golfer would say him nay. After 22 years of whacking away at the little white ball, the 77-year-old former President scored his first hole in one by rapping a nine-iron into the cup on the 104-yd. 13th hole at the Seven Lakes Country Club course in Palm Springs. Ike was hot as an afterburner the whole round. He scored an eagle on the par four, 260-yd. eighth hole, and his tee shot at the 122-yd. 18th hit the pin for an easy birdie...