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Died. Benjamin Harrison Dirksen, 73, the Senator's older brother, who stayed in Illinois with Ev's twin brother, Thomas, to help run the family bakery; of a heart attack; in Pekin...
Still, few in the Senate wanted to vote against it-or, by extension, for subversives. Why, declaimed Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, abolition of the board might even undermine the morale of the men in Viet Nam. Besides that, one of the members happens to come from Pekin, Ill., which, as every schoolboy should know, is Dirksen's home town...
...would rule out a rapprochement. In the Senate, after all, Dirksen is the acknowledged master of compromise. And it would not be the first time that the Senator has withdrawn from show biz. He made his first farewell bow to the boards some 40 years ago in Pekin, Ill., after he had starred in and married the leading lady of a local theatrical. In Pekin, he also co-authored and directed a two-act comedy called Chinese Love, which tells of Sing Loo's pursuit of the blossom of his eye, Pan Toy. Sample dialogue: Sing...
When I'm zapping Pekin...
Everett Dirksen was an eight-term Congressman back in 1948 when his doctors told him that he was losing his eyesight. Though a sure winner, he declined to run for a ninth term and went home to Pekin, Ill., to pray. Dirksen, who today is almost as sound of vision as he is of voice, is genuinely convinced that what saved him from blindness was prayer-and he is determined to pass on its 20/20 benefits to the rest...