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...first time in his record-breaking 48 years as a member of the House of Representatives and his 17 years as its Speaker, Texan Sam Rayburn last week was obviously and admittedly ailing. Racked by lumbago, he was unable to sleep or eat, had lost 15 Ibs. and showed...
Despite his pain, Mister Sam remained indomitable. After weeks of back twinges, he was finally prevailed upon to consult White House Physician Janet Travell, who administered Novocain to comfort him. When the treatment was over, Rayburn arose to put his trousers back on. Dr. Travell noticed that he was wobbling first on one foot, then on the other. She suggested that he sit down to finish dressing. Cried Sam Rayburn: "I am 79 years old, and no woman is going to tell me how to put on my pants...
...Travell, who won her White House position by reason of her treatments for Back Patient Jack Kennedy, assured Mister Sam that his pain would disappear with heat packs and perhaps some rest back at his Texas ranch. But the House was not so sanguine; Rayburn's many friends were especially disturbed by the fact that he was recently unable to make an important floor speech on behalf of the Administration's foreign aid bill...
After 49 years in Congress, Senate President pro Tempore Carl Hayden, 83, now stands third in line of succession to the White House (after Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn). Last week the Arizona Democrat won an even more impressive title: first lady-pleaser of the land. Hayden's credentials, as proclaimed by a bouquet-bearing delegation from the League of Women Voters: he is the only incumbent Congressman to have voted for the 19th Amendment, which ushered in female suffrage...
...Washington welcome. Chen later addressed the National Press Club, drove to the Pentagon for a conference with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Borrowing a presidential helicopter. Chen flew to Gettysburg for a short talk with Dwight Eisenhower, hurried back to lunch with Vice President Johnson and talk with Speaker Sam Rayburn on Capitol Hill, entertained Kennedy at an eight-course Mandarin dinner. Then he flew off to Manhattan, where he made a tour of Chinatown and met with U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold. Heading home this week, after stops in Chicago and San Francisco, Chen would take with him a briefcase full...