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House Speaker Sam Rayburn found himself last week facing a dilemma somewhat akin to that of a gold prospector who spots a huge nugget on the far side of a chasm perhaps too wide to jump across. Splendid would be the reward if he leaped and made it; but then how painful the penalty if he missed. Understandably, Rayburn hesitated at the brink...
...nugget in Rayburn's case was what he would gain from victory in his battle to add three new members to the House Rules Committee, chaired by Virginia's courtly, conservative Howard W. Smith. Over the years, in alliance with committee Republicans, Smith had repeatedly held up legislation he disliked by keeping it in the Rules Committee, through which most bills ordinarily pass before they can get to the floor (TIME, Jan. 13). By adding new members Mister Sam could gain a working majority on the committee and clear away a formidable congressional roadblock to the Kennedy Administration...
...California, 1849, the work opens rousingly with a brawling square dance of drunken, gold-greedy prospectors at Sutter's Fort. They ignore Captain Sutter (Jerome Hines), whose heart represents the purest nugget in the West, when he reminds them that it is Christmas Eve, wishes that "gold had never shown its yellow, sneaking face." Meanwhile, out on a snowy, nearby mountain slope, a courageous couple and their daughter (Judy Sanford) are near death from cold and starvation after a long trek west in search of a new life. But miraculously they stumble onto Sutter's Fort, where...
...carrying out his campaign tasks, Lodge will be referring frequently to a carefully guarded loose-leaf notebook that he calls his "nugget book." A reader of many books, especially histories, biographies and works on current national or international problems, Lodge has made a practice over the years of filing notes on his reading on two-by-three cards. After the convention, he selected some 200 items, had them photostated, and arranged them into his nugget book. Included in it are quotations from men as varied as Churchill, De Gaulle, Lincoln, Asoka (early apostle of Buddhism), Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Milton...
...such relaxed interludes were the exception for Campaigner Nixon. Even as Golden Nugget carried Nixon from Juneau to Anchorage-where he finally caught up with Candidate Stepovich-and on to Fairbanks this week, the rest of the U.S. was ready to vote (Nixon had already cast an absentee ballot in California). No sooner would the 1958 congressional elections end than the work for the presidential election of 1960 would begin-and for Candidate Nixon that work would make 1958 seem like child's play...