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Despite the report's lofty assertion that "a Senator is extended an extraordinary measure of trust and confidence not given to ordinary members of society," its very existence testifies that Senators can be, and have been, molded from crumbly clay. A product of more than two years of intermittent work (interrupted by necessity of investigating unsavory charges against Dodd and Missouri Democrat Edward V. Long), the Senate code, drawn up under the auspices of Mississippi's John Stennis, had at least one easily discernible merit: it was much more sin ewy than a bare-bones code dropped almost...
...Dodd Amendment." The Senate code requires that members report official, quasi-official, political and quasi-political funds raised at testimonial dinners and other such occasions (the "Dodd amendment"). For the first time, the murky area where campaign funds, office and personal expenses meld would be clearly defined and strictly regulated. But general disclosure of every Senator's financial holdings (which would, insisted Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, make Senators "second-class citizens") was not suggested. The code does propose that Senators file copies of their income tax returns with the committee-though in fact the committee already has authority...
...only permanent answer is more permanent judges. But even on the state-and local-court level it is hard to add judges. Last week New York's State Judicial Conference despairingly begged the legislature for 125 new judges. "There are areas of this state," said a conference report, "in which calendar delay is reaching such alarming proportions that a breakdown in the administration of justice is conceivable." But similar requests have been made in each of the past eight years with little result. Reason: Democrats and Republicans can never agree on how many of the new jobs each party...
...Oxford's United Hospitals, 19 patients with a variety of clotting problems, including deep-Vein thromboses in the legs and some involving the lungs, have been treated. In at least ten, the result is cautiously reported as "satisfactory." In others, it was equivocal, but all these patients had other complicating problems. From London's Royal Postgraduate Medical School comes a report of nine patients treated, eight successfully. Most important, the Lancet notes editorially, is that Arvin may not only prevent clotting but actually help to dissolve some clots already formed...
Looking forward, onetime New Deal Brain-Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell gives a progress report on his 32nd effort to bring the U.S. Constitution up to date. Dubbed the "Refounding Father" by his colleagues, Tugwell spells out a citizen's responsibilities along with his rights, emphasizes the shift in society from "competition to mutuality...