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...pressure gauge to normal, but the Senate was already under full steam. Georgia's Richard Russell, whose prestige as chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee had suffered during the battle for a Pentagon reorganization bill (TIME, July 28), saw a chance to regain ground. Russell introduced a rider to an appropriations bill that would forbid the Administration the right to undertake any study of surrender. U.S. citizens, cried Dick Russell, "would prefer to die on their feet in the event of a nuclear holocaust than to be making plans for living on their knees as the slaves...
...Congressman. His absenteeism is monumental (last year's roll call attendance: 46%); he is noisy, obstructionist and, above all, ineffective. Last year, for example, he insisted on tacking a civil rights clause to the much-needed $1.5 billion school construction bill. Powell knew he could never get the rider approved; he also knew that his intransigeance would kill the bill-which would have helped Harlem's schoolchildren as much as anyone in the U.S. It turned out just that...
...Willie Hartack, three-time (1955-56-57) national jockey champion, made his debut as a jumping rider at New Jersey's Monmouth Park, gave Mielaison a near-perfect ride over the ten-jump, 1¾-mile course, won by 4½ lengths, announced: "It was a greater thrill than winning the Kentucky Derby...
...power, to intimidate his adversaries. Yet if he were to abate that fury or convert it into a disciplined, responsible community, it would abandon him-the role would seek another hero. In the pungent Arabian Nights image: "He is a man born of a horse who has become the rider of the horse," and he could be unseated...
...rider of the West is not quite so popular as he seems to his dial-flicking critics. In an analysis of how many viewers watched which types of programs during prime TV time (7 to 10:30 p.m.) on the three networks last winter, the A.C. Nielsen Co. found that horse operas were still trailing variety shows. The ranking, according to each category's share of audience viewing time through the week...