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...tickets, hoping that the next holdup would be less excruciating. It was, in fact. Few days later the New Haven's 6:05 stopped about a mile and a-half short of the Stamford (Conn.) station, whereupon dozens of passengers resolutely got out and began marching in solid phalanx for town. Along the way, they spotted another stalled train starting up. They climbed aboard only to find that the train was not scheduled to stop at Stamford. But one heroic commuter had had enough for one week: he pulled the emergency signal, forced the train to stop...
...Nationalist Chinese Ambassador George H.C. Yeh, novelist Taylor Caldwell, columnist George Sokolsky, and William F. Buckley, Jr. Congressman Francis Walter and Admiral Lewis Strauss were supposed to come, but didn't make it. Each of these gentlemen was presented with a plaque for services to the nation. Such a phalanx might well be expected to draw every ambulatory conservative within a fifty-mile radius...
...wide-ranging, bipartisan force-from Minnesota's Democratic Hubert Humphrey to Massachusetts' Republican Leverett Saltonstall-was drawn up against a solid phalanx of Southern Democrats, who have traditionally used the filibuster to stop civil rights bills. New Mexico's Clint Anderson offered a resolution to change the Senate's notorious Rule 22 to allow three-fifths of the Senators present and voting to cut off debate, instead of the current hard-to-get two-thirds. Fair Dealer Humphrey upped the ante, asked cloture power for a mere majority of Senators. Georgia's Dick Russell objected...
President Kennedy will have a solid Democratic phalanx in the House of Representatives. The old Democratic majority (283-154) may have slipped slightly by the time the last absentee ballots are counted, but it will still be wide enough to assure Speaker Sam Rayburn (unopposed in his 25th House campaign) of another two years as the presiding officer of the lower house. Republicans lost a few seats in New Jersey and New York, held their inroads in the South, reclaimed five seats in Indiana, racked up a net gain of at least 15 seats. But the House in 1961 will...
...British-born "Pee-tah," as his friend, Mimic Sammy Davis Jr., calls him, such small-type billing on any other occasion might well be cause for foot-stomping temperament, but it must have comforted him to know that he was only the advance man for a new phalanx of Hollywood stars to whom Jack Kennedy's victory was more satisfying than smash box office. For in Hollywood terms, last week's political news signaled the hope for the biggest little revolution since Marilyn Monroe walked out on 20th Century...