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That, by and large, seemed to be the mood of the 90th Congress as it began its second session last week. The superficial conviviality of reunion coloring the first couple of days faded even faster than the suntans and windburns some members had brought back from Southern resorts and Northern ski slopes. The residual climate was grey, portending six or seven months of bilious dissension both among Democrats and between the parties, leading up to a rugged election season. Predicted Mike Mansfield, the spare-spoken Senate majority leader: "It will be a difficult session...
...CAROL BURNETT SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Reunion time with Garry Moore and Durward Kirby joining Carol...
...eyed glamour and tooth-for-a-tooth toughness have made him the politician most likely to succeed at the polls-but without the support of Eshkol, who has always resented his dissident support of Ben-Gurion. That left only the leftist Mapam party out of the grand labor reunion. Eshkol has already started conversations to see what can be done about that...
...Army quickly pulled Guinn out of the line, had him back home 24 hours later for a post-Thanksgiving reunion with his family, where Mrs. Guinn fainted. Johnny later said bitterly: "I don't feel we have any business being over there, and most of the fellows in my outfit feel the same way." The most painful impact of death, of course, is on the survivors, and Survivor John Guinn-who has already died once in Viet Nam-will probably not have to go back. After a 30-day leave he will be reassigned to Fort Bragg, N.C. Meanwhile...
...Moscow for the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Abdullah Sallal, the President of Republican Yemen, stopped off in Cairo to see his erstwhile benefactor, Gamal Abdel Nasser. He could hardly have expected a warm reunion. Nasser had grown tired of propping up the unpopular Sallal, whose refusal to make peace with the Yemeni Royalists had cost him the support of even his own followers. Even so, Sallal was unprepared for the reception he got. In a brief and chilly meeting, Nasser advised him to resign and go into exile...