Word: rayburns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such a drug is 5-fluorouracil (pronounced floo-or-oh-you're-a-sill), which Dallas physicians started giving, at the beginning of last week, to House Speaker Sam Rayburn. It is usually given only to selected patients who have already had surgery, radiation or both. Mister Sam's body was so riddled with spreading cancer (probably from a growth in the pancreas) that surgery was not possible. All the doctors could do at first was try to slow the march of the disease by chemical warfare against cancer cells...
...Ralph Tompsett. spokesman for Dallas' Baylor University Medical Center, said that Mister Sam tolerated the first big doses well, and had no nausea. A midweek bout of pneumonia interrupted the treatment, but Rayburn rallied quickly. After that he was given FUDR (5-fluoro-2'-deoxyuridine), which is a close chemical kin of 5-fluorouracil and works the same...
...Speaker Rayburn's incurable illness gave inevitable rise to the question of his successor. The odds-on choice: Massachusetts' Representative John McCormack, 69, a craggy Bostonian who has been Democratic floor leader for 17 years, longer than any other man, and who served as Speaker pro tern during Rayburn's absence in the closing weeks of the past session...
Among dark-horse candidates for the speakership is Missouri's Representative Richard Boiling, a Rayburn protege and an influential member of the House Rules Committee. But McCormack, because of his age, is not likely to be a long-term Speaker-and Boiling, at 45, should have plenty of later chances. Another possible contender is Pennsylvania's conservative Representative Francis ("Tad") Walter, who is far more popular with Southerners than McCormack, and who has displayed impressive abilities as a House presiding officer. But the mere mention of Walter, one of the authors of the McCarran-Walter immigration...
Thus, come next January, there is every chance that John McCormack-the "archbishop" of the cloakrooms-will take up the gavel handled with such dexterity for so long by Sam Rayburn...