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...silver rattles for John Jr. In return, Kennedy had Ayub measured for a tailor-made, gold-inlaid shotgun (a 12-gauge Winchester 21), which will be sent directly to Pakistan as soon as it is completed. At noon Ayub addressed Congress (see above), moved taciturn House Speaker Sam Rayburn to remark: "We have been in the presence of a man with iron in his backbone and brains in his head...
...alternative to reapportionment problems is an increase in House membership beyond the present 435. A pair of bills offering constitutional amendments to this effect have already been introduced. But no less a leader than Speaker Sam Rayburn has decreed that the House is large enough, quietly passed word to bottle up the bills. Result is that many a Congressman, his districts gerrymandered into new voter patterns, will watch his step until Election Day. Said one California Democrat last week: "If I knew where I stood, I could vote like a statesman. Instead I've got to tiptoe down...
...could reduce the political complexities of the row between the Speaker of the House and the chairman of the powerful Rules Committee to an easily digestible cartoon. "No hard feelin's, Mr. Sam," says Chairman Howard Smith into the telephone after losing the power struggle to Speaker Sam Rayburn. Then Smith continues solicitously, as he sticks pins into a voodoo doll of Rayburn: "By the way, how are you feelin...
...vote for his bill. "It was obvious," says one House leader, "that there were from seven to nine committee Democrats who wouldn't go along, and all the Republicans were against the bill." When Freeman still talked of victory, Cooley patiently took him around to see Speaker Sam Rayburn, who once more spelled out the facts of life...
Speaker Sam Rayburn anticipates no difficulty in getting Congress' approval of the reorganization plans for other agencies, which were drafted by Mr. Landis along lines similar to that of the FCC program. The primary reason for the fight over the plans for the FCC was summed up by an anonymous Congressman: "If it were someone else who were chairman, they would not be so concerned...